- Title Pages
- Foreword
- A Preface to Three Prefaces
- Book One Artifact In Behavioral Research
- 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
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Blind and Minimized Contact
Blind and Minimized Contact
- Chapter:
- (p.592) 22 Blind and Minimized Contact
- Source:
- Artifacts in Behavioral Research
- Author(s):
Robert Rosenthal
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter begins with a discussion of the blind contact strategy for psychological research. It then proposes that if we could eliminate experimenter-subject contact altogether it would seem that we would then also eliminate the operation of experimenter expectancy effects.
Keywords: experimenter effects, experimenter expectancy, expectancy effects, double-blind studies, psychological research
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- A Preface to Three Prefaces
- Book One Artifact In Behavioral Research
- 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
- Author Index
- Subject Index
