https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862174/

1. What was the original hypothesis for this article?

2. What did the authors of the study in this article investigate?

3. Whatwas thepurposeoftheresearch?Whatweretheauthors investigating andwhy?

4. State the research question the authors are investigating. The research question should identify the psychological construct of interest and the variables used to investigate the question.

5. Identify an operationaldefinition of all constructs used by theresearchers inthe experiment.Evaluate the strength of these definitions; do they make sense given the theoretical context the researchers provided? If so, why?If not, how could they have done better?

6. Giveanoverviewof themethods; thegoal istofind the sweetspotwhereyou giveenoughinformation forthereader/audiencetounderstand themain aspectsof the design (whatwerethetools,orderof events,and groups orconditions involved)without includingunnecessarydetails liketheagerange of subjects,university affiliationsof theresearchers, etc.

7. Describetheoverallpattern of results.You don't need to cover every t-test they discussed; rather, you should, in a few sentences, describe the outcome and whether the data supported or disconfirmed the predictions of the hypothesis they were testing.

8. Whatconclusionsweredrawnbasedon thefindings?Notethatthis is separatefrom reportingtheoverall pattern ofresults. Whatdidtheauthors sayaboutthedata?Whatdothefindings mean?