Shira Gabriel and Ariana F. Young (2011) conducted a study to test various hypotheses. This article will mainly focus on one hypothesis which is the narrative hypothesis of collective assimilation. The collective assimilation narrative hypothesis states that individuals have a strong desire to belong to a group of people and to assimilate to different characteristics when they feel alone or even to integrate into their collective. This study was conducted among 140 undergraduate students at the University at Buffalo, including 72 men and 68 women. The way the groups were divided was based on a scale of collective and relational self-construction that the students had taken earlier in the semester. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why violent video games should not be banned”?Get the original essay This study used an experimental research method because it had a manipulated independent variable and a measured dependent variable. The dependent variable in this experiment was the participants' response to the different books. One of the independent variables of the study was the type of book given to participants. There were two levels: they received either Twilight (Meyer, 2005) or Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling, 1999). Participants were asked to read certain chapters of each book. For Twilight, they were told to read chapter 13, which is the chapter in which the vampire Edward describes to Bella what it's like to be a vampire. Those who read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone had to read chapter 7, which is the chapter in which Harry and his friends are placed in specific "houses". Participants were allowed to move on to the next part of the experiment after finishing reading their assigned chapter or after reading for a total of 30 minutes. Once participants have completed their readings or some time has passed they have been able to move on to the next part of the experiment. Participants were then asked to complete an implicit association test also known as the IAT. This test was used to assess participants' identification with vampires or witches. Participants completed two blocks each consisting of 40 trials. In the first block, they had to sort the words “me”, the words “wizard”, the words “not me” and the words “vampire”. The words “me” and “wizard” used the same answer key, while the words “not me” and “vampire” used a different answer key. During the second block, participants were simply asked to respond as quickly and accurately as possible. The researchers predicted that participants who read the Harry Potter chapters would respond more quickly to the words "me" and "wizard," while those who read Twilight would respond more quickly to the words "me" and "vampire." After the two blocks, the researchers administered a measure of collective assimilation that they decided to call the “Twilight/Harry Potter Narrative Collective Assimilation Scale.” This involved asking three rare questions intended to measure the collective assimilation of Harry Potter and Twilight. The final procedure of the study involved participants completing a transportation scale that measured participants' experience of being caught up in a story. Data for this study were collected in person. The narrative-collective hypothesis was confirmed by the results of this study. Participants who read the assigned Twilight chapter identified as vampires while those who read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone identified as wizards. In.