News Finding: New Year message: A sweet taste influences your romantic perceptions!  Amusing psychology paper.
Paper Finding: Decomposing the interaction revealed a simple effect of the taste manipulation on perception of hypothetical relationship: Experiencing a sweet taste caused uninvolved participants to evaluate a hypothetical relationship more positively, Study 1: F(1, 151) ¼ 13.32, p < .001, Z 2 ¼ .08; Study 2: F(1, 121) ¼ 6.96, p ¼ .009, Z 2 ¼ .05, as was hypothesized.
News Context: New Year message: A sweet taste influences your romantic perceptions!  Amusing psychology paper.
Paper Context: Although this main effect is inconsistent across both studies, both studies revealed the same pattern of a significant interaction between the taste manipulation and rating target (see Table 2 ). Decomposing the interaction revealed a simple effect of the taste manipulation on perception of hypothetical relationship: Experiencing a sweet taste caused uninvolved participants to evaluate a hypothetical relationship more positively, Study 1: F(1, 151) ¼ 13.32, p < .001, Z 2 ¼ .08; Study 2: F(1, 121) ¼ 6.96, p ¼ .009, Z 2 ¼ .05, as was hypothesized. In contrast, the effect of the taste manipulation was not significant on evaluations of current relationship, Fs < 1, ps > .558, Z 2 s < .01.