Suppose that a researcher decided to study everyday altruism towards men versus towards women by leaving (fake) fully addressed college applications in airport lobbies (identical except with male versus female applicant names), and then tracking the number of people who send in the application. What kind of study of this?
A) A laboratory study
B) A field experiment
C) A correlational study
D) A quasi-experiment

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This is a field experiment, as the researcher is observing behavior in a natural setting (airport lobbies) and manipulating the independent variable (gender of the applicant name) to see if it affects the dependent variable (number of people who send in the application).

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