A questionnaire study was conducted among the general public of an average-sized city in the UK.
To gather a varied sample, questionnaireswere distributed around different public places in subareas of the town (67%).
Thirty-three per cent of the participants included students from a university in the same city, who were recruited via the same university’s voluntary participation system as was used for experiment 1.
In total, 107 participants filled out the questionnaire, of which 31 percent males with a mean age of 28.7 (SD=12.1).