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ResultsParticipants described a wide variety of gifts, including tshirts,CDs, wine, jewelry, books, and home décor. As in Study1, we did not include responses from participants who boughtgifts priced more than two standard deviations above the mean(any gifts above $1365.06), or who failed to respond to the questionabout gift price. Thus, five surveys were excluded, which left232 cases.We regressed appreciation on role (giver = 1, receiver = 1), giftprice, and an interaction term. A main effect of role was found,B = .13, SE(B) = .06, t(224) = 2.11, p < .04. There was no main effectof gift price, B = .38, SE(B) = .40, t(224) = .95, p < .34. More importantly,consistent with our prediction, there was a significant interactionbetween gift price and role, B = .98, SE(B) = .40,t(223) = 2.42, p < .02. Again, to interpret the interaction (see Aikenand West (1991)), we examined the relationship between giftprice and appreciation for both gift-givers and gift-recipients. Forgivers, gift price predicted appreciation, B = 1.40, SE(B) = .57,t(223) = 2.45, p < .02. However, for recipients, gift price did not predictappreciation, B = .55, SE(B) = .55, t(223) = 1.00, p < .32.To examine the influence of social desirability bias, we averagedeach participant’s responses to the items drawn from the ImpressionManagement Scale and included this score as an additionalcontrol variable. Although social desirability predicted appreciation,B = .19, SE(B) = .09, t(211) = 2.26, p < .01, the relationship betweenrole, gift price, and appreciation was virtually unchanged,B = .97, SE(B) = .41, t(210) = 2.39, p < .02, suggesting that socialdesirability cannot account for why gift-givers, but not gift-recipients,believe more expensive items will be more appreciated.
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