Question: A researcher was interested in understanding different approach strategies that could

be used by males to interest female strangers in going out for a date. They considered three different approaches: (1) casual conversation (engaging in casual conversation with the target female, saying whatever comes naturally); (2) humor (using humor to break the ice and generate interest on the part of the target); and (3) the “pick-up” line (using a clever pick-up line, like “do you come here often?” to express interest). The researchers also believed that the attractiveness of the approacher would affect the outcome of the encounter. They conducted a study in which two male graduate student assistants, who were independently rated as either clearly attractive or clearly unattractive, each approached a total of 21 female targets, and used one of the three approaches on each female. They measured the amount of time in minutes that they were able to engage each subject in conversation. Use SPSS to analyze the data.

Attractive- Attractive- Attractive- Unattractive- Unattractive- Unattractive-

Casual Humor Pick-up Casual Humor Pick-up

43 41 1 15 60 2

35 15 2 22 42 3

52 10 13 10 53 1

48 39 12 27 40 10

30 13 0 20 39 5

60 25 4 15 41 0

52 44 35 36 33 12

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