Data from the paper: Cognitive Consequences of Formal Clothing: The Effects of Clothing versus Thinking of Clothing

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Title:	Data from the paper: Cognitive Consequences of Formal Clothing: The Effects of Clothing versus Thinking of Clothing
Date:	October 2017
Creator:	Burger, Axel M. ; Bless, Herbert
Divisions:	School of Social Sciences > Mikrosoziologie u. Sozialpsychologie (Bless)

DDC Classification:	150 Psychology
Keywords:	clothing, construal level, mental abstraction, accessibility
Abstract:	This research aimed at testing whether the (strength of the) association of formality of clothing with mental abstraction that has been found in prior research (Slepian, Ferber et al., 2015) depends on whether individuals are (made) aware of the formality of their current clothing prior to measuring their current level of mental abstraction (as was the case in the previous studies on this topic). We conducted two pre-registered studies, in which participants estimated the formality of their current clothing relative to peers and performed an action identification task (Study 1) or a categorization task (Study 2) that served as measures of their current level of mental abstraction. In addition, we varied the order of assessing the formality of clothing and the level of mental abstraction in order to manipulate the accessibility of the formality of clothing before participants completed the mental abstraction tasks. When assessing formality of clothing prior to mental abstraction we did not obtain a reliable correlation so that the assumed decrease of this relation in the reversed order condition could not be tested adequately. When pooling the data of the two experimental conditions, the results of Study 1 do support the hypothesis that formality of clothing is positively correlated with mental abstraction and are compatible with the hypothesis of a causal mechanism where formality of clothing influences mental abstraction through changes in subjective social status and perceived power. Study 2 did not yield evidence in support of a positive correlation between formality of clothing and mental abstraction.

URL:	https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/257/
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7801/257
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DOI (External):	https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1396185

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	Other (Study 1 Raw Data) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study1_Raw_Data.sav	Download (730kB)
	Other (Study 1 Codebook) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study1_Codebook.xls	Download (69kB)
	Text (Study 1 Syntax (Computation of Variables)) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study1_Syntax.sps	Download (1kB)
	Other (Questback Project Export) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study1_Questback_Project.gpx	Download (35MB)
	Other (Study 2 Raw Data) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study2_Raw_Data.sav	Download (1MB)
	Other (Study 2 Codebook) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study2_Codebook.xls	Download (84kB)
	Text (Study 2 Syntax (Computation of Variables)) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study2_Syntax.sps	Download (1kB)
	Other (Study 2 Questback Project Export) Filename: Burger_Bless_CRSP_Study2_Questback_Project.gpx	Download (35MB)

Depositing User:	Axel Burger
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2017 19:38
Last Modified:	29 Feb 2024 20:16

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