Good news for experimenters: Subjects are hard to influence by instructorsʹ cues

Economics Bulletin, 2011, vol. 31, issue 4, 3221-3225

Abstract: An important concern of experimenters is that instructorsʹ nonverbal cues might change subject behavior. We let a professional actor try to produce this bias on purpose, finding only weak evidence for an "instructor demand effect", and only for female subjects.

Keywords: Economic experiments; Methodology; Experimenter demand effects; Priming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 C9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11-23
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