Matthias Mehl and Colleagues Equipped 79 Students with Electronic Recorders

question 321

Multiple Choice

Matthias Mehl and colleagues equipped 79 students with electronic recorders and then eavesdropped on more than 23,000 half-minute life slices of the students' waking hours.They found that students who were the happiest avoided small talk and engaged in more meaningful conversations.Mehl and colleagues used which research method?

• A) case study
• B) experiment
• C) experience sampling method
• D) survey

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