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(psychol) the influence of an experimenter's expectations on his results. experimenter effect in Medicine. experimenter effect n. The influence of the experimenter's behavior, personality traits, or expectancies on the results of his or her own research.
By definition, all experiments involve manipulation of one or more independent variables, and observing the effect on some outcome (dependent variable). Experiments can be done in the field or in a laboratory. They can involve human or animal subjects. What distinguishes the type of experiment is the degree to which the experimenter can assign subjects to conditions. Three types are described here: True, Quasi- and Single-subject experiments. In a true experiment, subjects are randomly assigned to the treatment conditions (levels of the independent variable).