In Snyder and Haugen's research on obesity and social status (1994;1995),male students were shown a picture of a normal or obese woman before having a conversation with a female student.In this study,the independent variable was the

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The independent variable in this study was the manipulation of the picture shown to the male students, either a normal or obese woman's picture. This was the variable that was intentionally changed by the researchers to see its effect on the male students' behavior and perception during the conversation with the female student.

In Snyder and Haugen's Research on Obesity and Social Status