Suppose You Would Like to Follow Up the Spotlight on Research

question 98

Multiple Choice

Suppose you would like to follow up the Spotlight on Research laboratory study regarding the hormone oxytocin as a possible fidelity prescription. Your research mentor suggests that you modify the dependent variable in some way. Which of the following proposals would NOT address your mentor's suggestion?

• A) Ask participants how interested they would be in going on a date with the experimenter.
• B) Have participants in a committed relationship rate the attractiveness of their current partner before and after oxytocin administration.
• C) Measure the physical distance participants sit from two attractive female confederates.
• D) Include both men who are in committed relationships and those men who are not.

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