Do You Know Your Own Mind? <!-- <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image4.png"/> (link:"left")[(set: $choice1 to "left")(goto: "card2")] (link:"right")[(set: $choice1 to "right")(goto: "card2")] --> Here are two pictures: <center>|left>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image12.jpg" height="200">] |right>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image3.jpg" height="200">]</center> Which of these two young women do you find more attractive? (Note that an “attractiveness” judgment does not require romantic interest. You can view someone as more attractive than someone else without any sexual element to the judgment.) Please Indicate your preference by clicking on the picture of the woman you find more attractive. (click: ?left)[(set: $choice1 to "left")(goto: "choice2")] (click: ?right)[(set: $choice1 to "right")(goto: "choice2")] Let’s be fair. Here are two young men. Which one do you find more attractive? Again, indicate your choice by clicking on the picture corresponding to your choice. <center>|left>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image14.jpg" height="200">] |right>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image7.jpg" height="200">]</center> (click: ?left)[(set: $choice2 to "left")(goto: "choice3")] (click: ?right)[(set: $choice2 to "right")(goto: "choice3")]Obviously, there is no right or wrong answer to these questions. Attraction is a matter of personal preferences, not objective fact. Let's go through two more pairs of pictures. For each one, choose the individual you find more attractive. <center>|left>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image6.jpg" height="200">] |right>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image15.jpg" height="200">]</center> (click: ?left)[(set: $choice3 to "left")(goto: "choice4")] (click: ?right)[(set: $choice3 to "right")(goto: "choice4")]Ok, last one: <center>|left>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image11.jpg" height="200">] |right>[<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image4.jpg" height="200">]</center> (click: ?left)[(set: $choice4 to "left")(goto: "text1")] (click: ?right)[(set: $choice4 to "right")(goto: "text1")]Although there is no “right answer” to the attraction questions, you have reasons for your preference. In the text boxes below, explain in no more than two sentences for each picture why you preferred the person you chose. (if: $choice1 is "left") [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image12.jpg" height="200"/>](else:) [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image3.jpg" height="200">] <textarea placeholder="Why did you prefer this person?"></textarea> (if: $choice2 is "right") [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image14.jpg" height="200"/>](else:) [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image7.jpg" height="200">] <textarea placeholder="Why did you prefer this person?"></textarea> [[Next->text2]]Now do the same thing for the final two pictures. (if: $choice3 is "left") [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image6.jpg" height="200"/>](else:) [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image15.jpg" height="200">] <textarea placeholder="Why did you prefer this person?"></textarea> (if: $choice4 is "left") [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image11.jpg" height="200"/>](else:) [<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/oerfiles/Psychology/interactives/choice/image4.jpg" height="200">] <textarea placeholder="Why did you prefer this person?"></textarea> [[Next->final]]Did you notice anything strange about the task you just did? We hope not, but sometimes people catch on. For one of the trials, the picture we showed you was not the picture you chose. If you did not notice - and went ahead and gave reasons for choosing the face you didn’t actually choose - then you are a lot like the participants in a study by Petter Johannson, Lars Hall, and their colleagues at Lund University in Sweden. In fact, you had a harder task than their subjects had, because, for you, there was a brief delay between choosing and explaining your reasons. For Johannson and Hall’s subjects, the face not chosen was shown immediately after the choice was made.