Transitions in Adolescent Girls (TAG) tasks

This repository includes the code for two tasks used in the TAG study:

• Self versus Change (SVC)
• Differential Self Disclosure (DSD)

SVC is a self-evaluation task based on prior work in our lab (Jankowski et al., 2014; Pfeifer et al., 2013; Pfeifer, Lieberman, & Dapretto, 2007). A generalized version of this task that is modifiable can be found here: https://gitlab.com/dsnlab/svc.

DSD is a self-disclosure task based on Tamir & Mitchell, 2012.

setup

To run this task, proceed with the following steps:

1. Add task/code to your matlab path
2. You must run the following from svc/task
3. Run getSubInfo() on the matlab command line
   • it will ask you to select the study folder -- this will be the svc/ folder in which you find task/ and this file, README.md.
4. Run runSVC() or runDSD() on the matlab command line

~/task

Contains code and input text to run experiments, design info/materials, task output

All code is in Psychtoolbox-3, often run on OS X using MATLAB_R2014b

Make sure to add the folders in ~/task to the MATLAB search path. To do so, type:

addpath(genpath('~/task'));

a note on keyboards

Both SVC and DSD scripts have two redundant pieces of code that help with keyboard selection. Either one or the other should be active, while the other one should be commented out.

The first one looks like this, and is for manual keyboard selection. If this is activated, then with each run of the script the user will manually select the internal keyboard and response keyboard.

[internalKeyboardDevice, inputDevice] = getKeyboards;
drs.keys = initKeysFromId(inputDevice);

The second one looks like this, and relies on harcoded specifications about the devices in order to identify keyboards.

 drs.keys = initKeys;
 inputDevice = drs.keys.deviceNum;
 
 devices=PsychHID('Devices');
 for deviceCount=1:length(devices),
   % Just get the local keyboard
   if ((strcmp(devices(deviceCount).usageName,'Keyboard') && strcmp(devices(deviceCount).manufacturer,'Mitsumi Electric')) ...
           || (strcmp(devices(deviceCount).usageName,'Keyboard') && strcmp(devices(deviceCount).product,'Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad'))),
     keys.bbox = deviceCount;
     keys.trigger = KbName('t'); % use 't' as KbTrigger
     internalKeyboardDevice=deviceCount;
   end
 end