Professor Bobson conducts a study that requires his participants to fill a questionnaire with two options: "ethical" or "unethical." This leads most of his subjects to choose the ethical option.The professor's choice marking his options as ethical or unethical is the study's

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The professor's choice of marking his options as ethical or unethical is an example of demand characteristics. Demand characteristics refer to cues within an experiment that suggest to the participants what the experimenter expects to find or how they should behave, leading to a change in behavior that is not the result of the independent variable being manipulated. In this case, the labeling of the options as ethical or unethical is a cue that can influence participants to choose the ethical option, regardless of their true beliefs or opinions.

Professor Bobson Conducts a Study That Requires His Participants to Fill