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Article: Experimenter differences in cognitive correlates of paranormal belief and in PSI.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Experimenter effects, that is, experimenters' influence on their research participants and subsequently on the outcome of their research, have a long history in psychology (e.g., Harris & Rosenthal, 1985; Rosenthal, 1967, 1976, 1990; Rosenthal & Rubin, 1978). Many different factors may play a role in experimenter effects, such as expectancy and belief (e.g., Luborsky et al., 1999) and personality (e.g., Cooper & Hazelrigg, 1988; Hazelrigg, Cooper, & Strathman, 1991).
The present study builds on this work by exploring the possible existence of experimenter effects within two important areas: (a) the psychology of belief in the paranormal and (b) psi research. The ...