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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-5-29
pubmed:abstractText
Although researchers are often concerned with the presence of participant demand, few have directly examined effects of demand on participant behavior. Before beginning the present study, a confederate informed participants (N = 100) of the study's purported hypothesis. Participants then performed a laboratory task designed to evaluate the extent to which they would respond in ways that may confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis of the study. The authors found that participants tended to respond in ways that confirmed the hypothesis, yet this tendency depended on attitudes toward the experiment or experimenter and other individual differences. In addition, results suggested that suspicion probes may be ineffective in measuring participants' previous knowledge and suspicion. Findings indicate the need for more research and consideration of demand in the design of studies and analysis of data.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-1309
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
135
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
151-65
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
The good-subject effect: investigating participant demand characteristics.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, USA. austinln@ufl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article