Implementation Details ---------------------- This page describes how our lab implemented the procedures required by the official protocol for the RRR. It also describes and justifies any departures from that protocol. You can view the official protocl and the main project page for this RRR using these links: - Official Protocol: [https://osf.io/2h6tf/][1] - Main RRR project page: [https://osf.io/s3hfr/][2] ---------- #### Experimenters #### The experimenter will be a psychology graduate student who is knowledgeable in the science of relationships and experienced running participants in a laboratory setting. Training will involve the primary researchers describing the process to the experimenter and having the experimenter run the researchers through the procedure of the study to ensure that all components of the procedure outlined in the protocol has been met. To ensure that the experimenter is blind to condition assignment, the primary researchers will place the priming condition questionnaires in envelopes and assign a participant id number to each questionnaire and write the corresponding number on the envelope. Separate piles will be created for men and women following the randomization procedure outlined in the protocol. The experimenter will provide participants with an envelope from the pile that corresponds with their sex. ---------- #### Setting/Lab/Equipment #### Testing will take place in a lab room that contains four PC computers. To ensure participants' privacy, there are dividers between each computer and the experimenter will be sitting outside the lab room during testing (see image). ---------- #### Sample, subjects, and randomization #### **Target sample size:** We plan to test 160 participants in total. **Target sample demographics:** Students enrolled in an Introductory Psychology course at the University of Western Ontario will be recruited for this study. Students will be compensated for their time by receiving research credits for the course. These students are expected to be 18-24 years of age and 60% female. **Minimum sample size after exclusions:** Our minimum sample size after exclusions is 120 participants. **Stopping rule(s):** Data collection will stop after we reach 160 participants. If additional participants are needed after exclusions, we will follow the condition assignment script to collect additional data to meet the minimum sample size. **Randomization to conditions:** The official protocol gives explicit directions for how to randomly assign participants to conditions, and the main project page for this RRR provides an R script that all labs will use to generate these random condition assignments. **Blinding to conditions:** Testing will be conducted in a computer lab. Participants will be completing the study at a computer desk with dividers between each desk. The dividers will ensure that participants will not be able to see other participants' priming questionnaire. **Exclusion rules:** We will be using the same exclusion rules as stated in the protocol. ---------- #### Software/Code #### We will be using the materials provided: Qualtrics survey and condition assignment scripts. ---------- #### Differences from the official protocol #### We will not be deviating from the official protocol. [1]: https://osf.io/2h6tf/ [2]: https://osf.io/s3hfr/