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You can incorporate EPA measurements that you get on your own. One way is to enter one EPA profile at a time as follows:
In advanced mode, click in the number box at the bottom of a dictionary list to get a cursor. Type an EPA profile with the three numbers separated by spaces and/or commas, and press the Enter key. You will see a new entry in the list whose "word" is composed of the numbers that you entered.The entry is not a permanent addition to the list, but the entry does remain available until you end your Interact session. The temporary entry can be used in defining a situation or an event just like regular words in the list.
The new entry uses the same EPA profile for both males and females. The entry has every Interact filter category set to true, so it passes through all filters.
The other way to incorporate EPA measurements is with the form described here.
The Import-data form has four radio buttons to signal what kind of EPA data you are importing: Identities, Behaviors, Modifiers, or Settings. Data will be incorporated into the dictionary that you choose with these radio buttons.
A text box is in the middle of the form. This is where you paste the data that you want to incorporate.
The menu version of the paste function may not work in your browser when you are working with Java applets like Interact. Therefore you must paste by clicking the cursor inside the box and then using the keystroke version of the copy function - e.g., CTRL-V in Microsoft Windows.You could enter data in the box using the keyboard on your computer, but it is better to type the entries in a word processor, and then copy-and-paste into Interact. Note: all of the contents of the box will be cleared when you import the data!
Follow these rules in preparing the entries.
| The first item on each line must be a word. Use only letters, embedded digits, or the characters [\_`^] . The item must not have spaces within it because then it would be considered to be multiple items. To enter a phrase, separate words with the underline character _. |
| Items two through seven must be decimal numbers separated by spaces. Interact expects the first three decimal numbers to be an EPA profile from males and the second three decimal numbers to be an EPA profile from females. |
When the box contains the entries that you want to import, click the Import-entries-below button. That will make the entries ready to use in Interact.You can find them at the head of dictionary lists on the Define-Situation and Define-Events forms. The entries also are available for the searches Interact conducts, with all filters open. The new entries remain until you end your Interact session, or switch to another culture.
All dictionary lists are colored red after importing data to remind you that the data may be no longer culturally coherent.
A checkbox at the bottom allows you to erase all of the current lines in a dictionary. Then the dictionary will consist only of your new entries.
The following identity entries exemplify the rules stated above. These entries are based on EPA ratings obtained from American university students in 1996.
You can import these data into Interact as follows:
AIDS_patient -0.91 -1.26 -1.91 -0.20 -1.87 -2.17
closet_homosexual -0.43 -1.43 -1.43 -0.27 -1.33 -1.24
conservative 0.43 0.57 -0.62 0.25 0.77 -0.36
drinker -0.48 0.09 1.39 -1.07 -0.61 1.17
drug_user -2.04 -0.91 0.52 -2.20 -1.37 -0.26
man_with_earrings 0.22 0.57 1.17 0.96 0.83 1.11
woman_with_earrings 1.87 0.35 -0.04 1.82 0.58 0.56
someone_with_eating_disorder -1.83 -1.57 -1.00 -1.46 -1.57 -1.13
ex_boyfriend -1.00 0.43 0.05 -1.63 -0.48 -0.07
ex_girlfriend -0.36 -0.32 -0.36 -0.17 -0.34 0.23
feminist -1.26 0.78 2.35 1.28 1.76 2.35
fraternity_member -0.52 0.26 1.74 0.17 1.09 2.41
grit_rural_Hoosier -0.14 -0.82 -0.45 0.14 -0.52 0.10
lesbian 0.17 0.52 1.52 -0.48 -0.65 0.26
man_without_earrings 1.04 0.96 0.52 1.24 0.80 0.57
woman_without_earrings 1.17 0.04 0.09 1.27 0.44 0.40
openly_gay_person -0.35 -0.09 -0.13 0.23 -0.23 0.02
person_with_body_piercings -1.04 -0.48 0.57 0.20 -0.07 0.93
radical -0.45 1.00 2.36 0.50 1.00 2.00
room-mate 1.35 0.96 0.70 1.71 0.82 1.20
smoker -1.14 -0.64 -0.55 -1.26 -0.72 0.20
sorority_member 0.50 0.05 1.32 0.40 0.40 1.89
person_with_tattoos -0.43 0.39 1.26 0.68 0.34 1.07
More
importable data sets are available.
Click the Show-current-entries button to get a listing of current dictionary data. The listing will be of identities, behaviors, modifiers, or settings―depending on which radio button is checked.
To export the data, select and copy the lines inside the text box, then paste in another application.
Each line contains, respectively:
| The word, |
| Mean Evaluation rating from males, |
| Mean Potency rating from males, |
| Mean Activity rating from males, |
| Mean Evaluation rating from females, |
| Mean Potency rating from females, |
| Mean Activity rating from females, |
| Codes for filters as specified on the Find-Concepts form. Code zero indicates the word is excluded by a particular filter; code one indicates that the filter includes, or passes, the word. |
Commas separate fields.