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Experimental Method in Psychology

A topic within Research Methods & the Replication Crisis, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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The Effects of Demand Characteristics on Research Participant Behaviours in Non-Laboratory Settings: A Systematic Review

Jim McCambridge, Marijn de Bruin & John Witton

Reviews studies that directly tested whether participants change their behaviour simply because they know they are being observed, and finds the evidence for such demand effects outside the laboratory is far weaker and more inconsistent than psychology usually assumes when designing a study around it.

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Statistical Methods for Research Workers

Ronald A. Fisher

Lays out the statistical tools - significance testing, analysis of variance, the design of experiments - that became the working method of experimental psychology and every other quantitative science that followed it.

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The Effects of Demand Characteristics on Research Participant Behaviours in Non-Laboratory Settings: A Systematic Review

Statistical Methods for Research Workers

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