A third idea might involve asking participants to think deeply about themselves before seeing "Social Media Post #1". For some, we ask them to think about their friends and what makes them unique among their friends (unique condition). For others, we ask them to think about what similarities they have with their friends (similarity condition). They then do the study similar to study one, with some in the Self-Rating condition and others in the Friend-Rating condition. How might thinking unique versus similarity thoughts about themselves impact participant recall of the social media post words later in Part A (Recall)? It is possible that the "thinking" exercise might get rid of the self-reference effect for everyone, even for those in the FR condition. But again, I might be wrong!

1- Give me a hypothesis for what you expect to occur if your new independent variable is chosen for the class project. What do you predict just for that independent variable? What do you predict in terms of the interaction of that new independent variable with your original Self-Reference Effect (Self-Rating vs Friend-Rating)independent variable?