Hello Group and thank you for taking the time to read this..

My research is examining whether membership of one of two personality categories predicts effectiveness at lying as measured by response timings, specifically response latency and response duration.

I have 40 participants overall, who roughly split into 2 groups by personality variable.

Each participant has produced 3 honest and 3 dishonest statements for which I have timed data featuring: Response latency and response duration.

My question is how to design my descriptive and inferential statistics to optimally depict any relationships. I am having trouble designing the analysis but also to determine the best way to standardize the data.

Even a nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Doc Foster

Were the 40 participants chosen from the begining randomly and then saw that some of them go this group and the others go to the other group because of the personality? Then, this sounds like two-way ANOVA to me since you have two factors, the one is the personality variable and the other one is the honesty or not of the statements. If that is not the case, please report.