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Case Study: Begin the project by carefully defining ways in which you can use clothing, cosmetics, hair styling, and so on to create an attractive, an unattractive, or a stereotypical personal appearance. Then randomly choose which day of the week that you will make yourself attractive, unattractive and stereotypical according to your own specifications.
?Before you begin your experiment, make up nine 4 ´ 6 cards on which you have typed the 10 positive and 10 negative indicators of self-esteem listed in Chapter 5 of Adolescence. These cards will be your measure of self-esteem over the two-week period during which you carry out your self-experiment.
?Begin your experiment according to the schedule you have planned. Maintain an attractive appearance on "attractive days" and an unattractive appearance on "unattractive days", then stereotypical appearance on "stereotypical days." At the end of each day, take a moment to check which of the indicators of positive or negative self-esteem you have experienced that day. Then subtract the negative indicators from the positive and call the result your daily self-esteem score.
?When you have collected all your data, enter your daily self-esteem scores in a table that compares attractive days to unattractive days and stereotypical days. Indicate in your table descriptive statistics such as the mean and standard deviations of your scores (you may need help from your instructor to calculate these).
Questions: ?When you have created a table, write a brief report that answers the following questions.
1.?What did you expect to find out? Explain your expectations.
2.?What did you do to test your hypothesis? Indicate your plan, and summarize your procedures.
3.?What did you find out? Indicate your table of data.
4.?Did you confirm your expectations? Why did or didn't you?
5.?Do you believe the results of your self-experiment? Why or why not?