An experiment was designed to determine if gender of the interviewer and the amount of eye contact by the interviewer will influence the participant’s liking of an interviewer. Thus participants were randomly assigned to groups that had either a male or female interviewer who made little, moderate, or sustained eye contact. At the end of the sessions, the participants were asked to rate their liking of the interviewer.
-This is a _________design.
A) between-participants
B) within-participants
C) mixed model
D) one-group

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The experiment involves different participants being assigned to different conditions (male or female interviewer and levels of eye contact), with no indication that the same participants experienced more than one condition. This setup defines a between-participants design, where different groups of participants are exposed to different conditions.

An Experiment Was Designed to Determine If Gender of the Interviewer