___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Decisional Balance Exercise ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-22-2018 last updated: 02-21-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-21-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a Decisional Balance Exercise ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TASK DESCRIPTION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Participants read an introduction about decision making using a cost-benefit analysis approach before they are asked to participate in a cost-benefit analysis of doing change XXX of their own choice. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 5 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'decisionalbalanceexercise.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'decisionalbalanceexercise_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) introReadingTime: the amount of time (in ms) spent on the introduction page exerciseTime: the amount of time (in ms) spent on the exercise change: the selected change for the excercise textbox.change_benefits.response: the response given for the benefits of doing change XXX textbox.change_costs.response: the response given for the costs of doing change XXX textbox.Notchange_benefits.response: the response given for the benefits of NOT doing change XXX textbox.Notchange_costs.response: the response given for costs of NOT doing change XXX