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| Ivo Bischoff and Björn Frank |
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| ''Good news for experimenters: Subjects are hard to influence by instructorsʹ cues'' |
| ( 2011, Vol. 31 No.4 ) |
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| An important concern of experimenters is that instructorsʹ nonverbal cues might change subject behavior. We let a professional actor try to produce this bias on purpose, finding only weak evidence for an "instructor demand effect", and only for female subjects. |
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| Keywords: Economic experiments, Methodology, Experimenter demand effects, Priming |
JEL: C9 - Design of Experiments: General
B4 - Economic Methodology: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Oct 29 2011 | | Manuscript Accepted : Nov 23 2011 |
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