Help on Interpreting My Results

[akiba101]

Hey!

I did an experiment for my 3rd year economics undergraduate essay. Its a Public Good Game experiment with two psychological treatments. The two treatments for the experiment, 'Primed' and 'Non-Primed'. I'm using Eview8 and my data is cross-sectional, I did a few OLS regressions to test the effect of my priming treatments (as a dummy) on the level of 'punishment' and 'contribution'.

My results weren't great which is fine. The primed-dummy was not significant in either regression. However another variable 'absolute negative deviation of recipients contribution against punisher's contribution' was found to be statistically significant at the 5% level in one of my regressions.

However when I combined "negative deviation * primeddummy" I found that negative deviation on its own was no longer a significant variable with the new multiplicative variable neagtivedeivation*primeddummy significant at the 5% level. I just wanted to check how I should interpret those results, am I right in assuming that despite the multiplicative variable's significance that my 'primed' treatment still has no effect on my dependent variable.

I linked the eviews workfile below, the regressions of importance are the 'punishmentfull' and 'punishmentnegativedeviat' equations.

Any help is much appreciated.