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experimenter effects

A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | 323 words | Copyright

experimenter effects A term used in psychology to highlight the ways in which an experimenter or researcher may influence the outcome of an experiment through his or her presence. The most celebrated instance in sociology is probably that of the so-called Hawthorne experiments conducted by Elton Mayo and his colleagues.

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