Research Design - Effects of self esteem on helping behavior
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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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 ...
Solution Summary
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.