Psychology & Sociology · Mr. Pankow: Social Structure & Inequality

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Demand characteristics are when ____

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Demand characteristics are when participants in an experiment change their behavior to try and act how they think the experimenter wants them to behave
Demand characteristics are when participants in an experiment change their behavior to try and act how they think the e…
the change in behavior can be conscious or unconscious!
example: in stanford prison experiments, the guards may have thought that zimbardo WANTED them to treat the prisoners like shit, so they did

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