Question 16.25

16.25 Sadness and spending.

Exercise 7.52 (page 394) studies the effect of sadness on a person’s spending judgment. In the exercise, we find 17 participants in the sad group and 14 participants in the neutral group.

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  1. Arrange the 31 observations in order and assign ranks. Be aware of ties.
  2. What is the rank sum for the sad group?
  3. Using software, is there evidence of a sadness effect in that people in a sad mood systematically spend more than people not in a sad mood?

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(b) (c) , People in a sad mood systematically spend more than people not in a sad mood.