1. What’s their research question? -Will attitudes towards the homeless be more positive in the high than in the low-empathy conditions.
2. What’s their predicted outcome (their hypothesis)– In more empathetic environment people will have more empathy than people in less empathetic environment people will have less empathy.
3. What are the scientists comparing? – Attitudes towards the homeless in high and low empathy conditions.
4. Who is in the experimental group?  Who is in the comparison group?  How many in each? – The experimental group is the undergraduate students that listened to the broadcast tape and received one of two forms that contained different background information about the homeless man that could contribute to the amount of empathy they show. The comparison group is the other group that received information.
5. What’s the intervention (or manipulation) for the experimental group – The undergraduate students, in two different groups, receive a background form about the homeless man.
6. What’s the intervention for the comparison group? – The form of background information either applying empathy towards the homeless or not.
7. How are the results measured? – To check the effectiveness of the manipulation, participants were asked for a final evaluation questionnaire the extent to which they thought Harold was responsible for being homeless.
8. Do their results support their hypothesis? – The initial support for the idea that inducing empathy for a member of a stigmatized group could improve attitudes toward the group as a whole.