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Double-blind laboratory experiment

A double-blind laboratory experiment is a controlled experimental design conducted in a laboratory setting in which neither the participants nor the researchers directly administering the treatment know which condition each participant has been assigned to. This dual blinding, combined with the high degree of environmental control characteristic of laboratory settings, minimizes both participant expectancy effects and experimenter bias, making it one of the most rigorous designs available for isolating causal relationships between independent and dependent variables.

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Double-Blind Laboratory Experiment
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  • Shadish, W. R., Cook, T. D., & Campbell, D. T. (2002). Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference. Houghton Mifflin. · ISBN 978-0395615560
  • Blind experiment. Wikipedia. · URL
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