A plant manager wants to know whether an intervention found to be effective in a laboratory study would improve the morale of the employees in her workplace. She is likely MOST interested in
A) setting boundary conditions for the intervention.
B) whether the study had good internal validity.
C) the ecological validity of the research results.
D) whether employee morale is a problem in other work settings.

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The plant manager is likely most interested in the ecological validity of the research results because she wants to know if the intervention found to be effective in a laboratory study would be effective in her workplace, which is a real-world setting. Ecological validity refers to the extent to which research results generalize to real-world settings.

A Plant Manager Wants to Know Whether an Intervention Found