| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
The theme for this bachelor thesis is nonverbal behaviors (NBs), and is part of a bigger project working on an experiment of the effects of NBs on a form of treatment (a placebo effect). This current thesis consists of two aims, and the first and main aim is to test the reliability and validity of the acted nonverbal behaviors of experimenters as health care providers. The secondary aim of this thesis is to investigate if there are any gender differences in ratings of hypothetical pain intensity before and after watching video clips using channelized NBs to present a form of treatment, and also if there are differences between conditioning and control groups. The methods used for the first study is coding done by the project group of 15 students, and two one-way ANOVAs were performed to analyze the data. The results suggests that the videos were valid and reliable, and could therefore be used in the mother project. For the secondary aim an online study was made and 100 participants were recruited using a snowball sample method, and a repeated measures ANOVA was performed. The results showed that there were no significant gender differences nor differences between groups.
Key words: nonverbal behaviors, video clips, actors, reliability, validity, gender differences | |