Your research project is to look for correlations between explanatory style and success in peace negotiations undertaken by world politicians. You have no way of gaining direct access to these people so you won’t be able administer questionnaires. In general terms, what method are you likely to employ?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: In terms of the textbook, this question tries to focus the student’s attention on the “CAVE technique” of Peterson, et al. (There may be other, clever ways of accomplishing this task.) The CAVE technique needs only pubic statements by the people who are to be subjects of the study. A direct quote, or a radio or T.V. interview will do. In the quote, the subject needs to be explaining the good or bad results of their current negotiations. From this, a trained observer can rate their expression on the three dimensions of internal-external, stable-unstable, and global-specific using 1 to 7 scales similar to the ASQ. Higher scores indicate a more pessimistic explanatory style. This can then be used as a variable to correlate with a rating of success of the negotiations in question. Presumably, the hypothesis would be that high optimism would correlate with or predict greater success in negotiations.
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