Sample Hypotheses

Rewriting Hypotheses and Identifying Variables

Instructions: For each one of these research questions, write a research hypothesis and the corresponding null hypothesis. Identify all of the variables in each question by circling them. Put an "R" in front of relationship hypotheses and a "C" in front of comparative hypotheses. Then pick two hypotheses and conceptually define all of the variables in them.

1. Does humor in advertising affect male and female viewers differently?

2. Are five-year-old children more likely to believe television advertising than are ten-year-old children?

3. What is the effect of negative political campaigns on candidate who use them?

4. What is the effect of a teacher's use of space in the classroom on students' learning?

5. Does use of humor by a teacher increase learning?

6. Do able-bodied individuals adapt or change their communication when they interact with a person who has a visible physical disability

7. As the consequences of getting caught in a lie become more severe, do people actually lie better?

8. Do men and women use different conflict strategies

9. Will a person with high need for affiliation react differently to criticism than a person with moderate or low need for affiliation?