Dr. Robert Balch and his graduate student David Taylor studied a UFO cult that later was called Heaven's Gate. Cult members believed that they were chosen to rendezvous with aliens from space. In the 1980s, Taylor infiltrated the group to study it undercover, interacting and observing members for more than a year. The type of research evidence provided by Taylor was a:

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The evidence provided by David Taylor was a participant-observer field study using naturalistic observation because he infiltrated the group and observed their behavior and beliefs firsthand for over a year. There was no manipulation of variables, so it was not an experiment or quasi-experiment. It was also not a case study of an individual member, as Taylor observed and interacted with multiple members of the group.

Dr Robert Balch and His Graduate Student David Taylor Studied