Hoyt and colleagues (2014) randomly assigned participants to receive a message about the origin of obesity.Participants read either a recent New York Times article discussing the decision of the American Medical Association to categorize obesity as a disease or a control article offering a standard information-based public-health message about weight.They then looked at how message type affected food choices (high vs.low calorie foods).The message type is the ______.

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The message type is the independent variable because it is the variable that is manipulated by the researchers to observe its effect on the dependent variable, which in this case is the food choices.

Hoyt and Colleagues (2014) Randomly Assigned Participants to Receive a Message