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  2. Observer-expectancy effect - Wikipedia

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    The observer-expectancy effect [a] is a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to subconsciously influence the participants of an experiment. Confirmation bias can lead to the experimenter interpreting results incorrectly because of the tendency to look for information that conforms to their hypothesis, and ...

  3. Demand characteristics - Wikipedia

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    The negative-participant role (also known as the screw-you effect) [4] in which the participant attempts to discern the experimenter's hypotheses, but only in order to destroy the credibility of the study. The faithful-participant role in which the participant follows the instructions given by the experimenter to the letter.

  4. Reactivity (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The Hawthorne effect occurs when research study participants know they are being studied and alter their performance because of the attention they receive from the experimenters. The John Henry effect , a specific form of Hawthorne effect, occurs when the participants in the control group alter their behavior out of awareness that they are in ...

  5. Design of experiments - Wikipedia

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    The use of a sequence of experiments, where the design of each may depend on the results of previous experiments, including the possible decision to stop experimenting, is within the scope of sequential analysis, a field that was pioneered [12] by Abraham Wald in the context of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. [13]

  6. Observer effect - Wikipedia

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    Observer-expectancy effect, a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to unconsciously influence the participants of an experiment; Observer bias, a detection bias in research studies resulting for example from an observer's cognitive biases

  7. Subject-expectancy effect - Wikipedia

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    In scientific research and psychotherapy, the subject-expectancy effect, is a form of reactivity that occurs when a research subject expects a given result and therefore unconsciously affects the outcome, or reports the expected result.

  8. Clever Hans - Wikipedia

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    A study conducted in 2012 examined the socio-communicative ability of dogs with humans, looking at how much of an influence an owner, if present, would have on their dog during an object-choice pointing task, including looking at whether a Clever Hans effect was present. The study concluded that when the experimenter provided a pointing gesture ...

  9. Experimenter's regress - Wikipedia

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    Neither individual researchers nor entire scientific communities are immune to this effect: see N-rays and polywater. Experimenter's regress is a typical relativistic phenomenon in the Empirical Programme of Relativism (EPOR). EPOR is very much concerned with a focus on social interactions, by looking at particular (local) cases and ...