In the Featured Study by Dutton & Aron, the authors hypothesized that an attractive female (who was a research confederate) would be perceived as more attractive by males on "fear-arousing" bridge, than by males on a "control" bridge. Further, if a man crossed the "fear-arousing" bridge prior to meeting a female, he would be more likely to phone her later. In this study, what is the dependent variable?

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The dependent variable in this study is whether the male subjects phoned the female confederate. This is the outcome that the researchers are interested in predicting based on the independent variable (crossing a fear-arousing bridge). The other options are either independent variables (whether a male subject crossed a bridge or the nature of the bridge itself) or a control variable (the baseline attractiveness of the female confederate).

In the Featured Study by Dutton & Aron, the Authors