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What type of research design is used?
a) True lab experiment
b) Quasi-experiment
c) Field experiment
d) Correlation

A social psychologist is interested in the effects of self esteem on helping behavior. She manipulates self-esteem by telling participants they have done poorly (low self esteem) or very well (high self esteem) on a test of mental ability and then measures their willingness to help a woman who has supposedly fallen off a ladder in her room.

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Based on the scenario, this solution identifies and explains the type of research design used to test the effects of self esteem on helping behavior.

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Answer: field experiment

Why?

A field experiment is an experiment performed in a non-laboratory setting. An experiment entails:
• Selecting or randomly assigning subjects to experimental units (I am ...

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