- Title Pages
- Foreword
- A Preface to Three Prefaces
- Book One Artifact In Behavioral Research
- 1 Perspective: Artifact and Control
- 2 Suspiciousness of Experimenter's Intent
- 3. The Volunteer Subject<sup>1</sup>
- 4 Pretest Sensitization<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Demand Characteristics and the Concept of Quasi-Controls<sup>1</sup>
- 6 Interpersonal Expectations: Effects of the Experimenter's Hypothesis<sup>1</sup>
- 7 The Conditions and Consequences of Evaluation Apprehension
- 8 Prospective: Artifact and Control<sup>1</sup>
- Book Two Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research
- The Nature Of Experimenter Effects
- 1 The Experimenter as Observer
- 2 Interpretation of Data
- 3 Intentional Error
- 4 Biosocial Attributes
- 5 Psychosocial Attributes
- 6 Situational Factors
- 7 Experimenter Modeling
- 8 Experimenter Expectancy
- Part II Studies Of Experimenter Expectancy Effects
- 9 Human Subjects
- 10 Animal Subjects
- 11 Subject Set
- 12 Early Data Returns
- 13 Excessive Rewards
- 14 Structural Variables
- 15 Behavioral Variables
- 16 Communication of Experimenter Expectancy
- Part III Methodological Implications
- 17 The Generality and Assessment of Experimenter Effects
- 18 Replications and Their Assessment
- 19 Experimenter Sampling
- 20 Experimenter Behavior
- 21 Personnel Considerations
- 22 Blind and Minimized Contact
- 23 Expectancy Control Groups
- 24 Conclusion
- Interpersonal Expectancy Effects: A Follow-up
- Book Three The Volunteer Subject
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Characteristics of the Volunteer Subject
- 3 Situational Determinants of Volunteering
- 4 Implications for the Interpretation of Research Findings
- 5 Empirical Research on Voluntarism as an Artifact-Independent Variable
- 6 An Integrative Overview
- 7 Summary
- Appendix
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Suspiciousness of Experimenter's Intent
Suspiciousness of Experimenter's Intent
- Chapter:
- (p.15) 2 Suspiciousness of Experimenter's Intent
- Source:
- Artifacts in Behavioral Research
- Author(s):
William J. McGuire
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Three stages in the life of an artifact are (a) ignorance of its existence, (b) coping with the artifact, and (c) exploiting it for what it can tell us about human behavior. This chapter focuses on the subject's suspicions of the experimenter's intent, with special emphasis on strategies for recognizing, coping with, and exploiting this source of artifact.
Keywords: suspiciousness, experimenter's intent, attitude formation, attitude change, ethics of deception
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- A Preface to Three Prefaces
- Book One Artifact In Behavioral Research
- 1 Perspective: Artifact and Control
- 2 Suspiciousness of Experimenter's Intent
- 3. The Volunteer Subject<sup>1</sup>
- 4 Pretest Sensitization<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Demand Characteristics and the Concept of Quasi-Controls<sup>1</sup>
- 6 Interpersonal Expectations: Effects of the Experimenter's Hypothesis<sup>1</sup>
- 7 The Conditions and Consequences of Evaluation Apprehension
- 8 Prospective: Artifact and Control<sup>1</sup>
- Book Two Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research
- The Nature Of Experimenter Effects
- 1 The Experimenter as Observer
- 2 Interpretation of Data
- 3 Intentional Error
- 4 Biosocial Attributes
- 5 Psychosocial Attributes
- 6 Situational Factors
- 7 Experimenter Modeling
- 8 Experimenter Expectancy
- Part II Studies Of Experimenter Expectancy Effects
- 9 Human Subjects
- 10 Animal Subjects
- 11 Subject Set
- 12 Early Data Returns
- 13 Excessive Rewards
- 14 Structural Variables
- 15 Behavioral Variables
- 16 Communication of Experimenter Expectancy
- Part III Methodological Implications
- 17 The Generality and Assessment of Experimenter Effects
- 18 Replications and Their Assessment
- 19 Experimenter Sampling
- 20 Experimenter Behavior
- 21 Personnel Considerations
- 22 Blind and Minimized Contact
- 23 Expectancy Control Groups
- 24 Conclusion
- Interpersonal Expectancy Effects: A Follow-up
- Book Three The Volunteer Subject
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Characteristics of the Volunteer Subject
- 3 Situational Determinants of Volunteering
- 4 Implications for the Interpretation of Research Findings
- 5 Empirical Research on Voluntarism as an Artifact-Independent Variable
- 6 An Integrative Overview
- 7 Summary
- Appendix
- Author Index
- Subject Index
