Description based on print version record.

New combination volume of three books-in-one.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Book one: Artifact in behavioral research -- Perspective: artifact and control / Edwin G. Boring -- Suspiciousness of experimenter's intent / William J. McGuire -- The volunteer subject / Robert Rosenthal and Ralph L. Rosnow -- Pretest sensitization / Robert E. Lana -- Demand characteristics and the concept of quasi-controls / Martin T. Orne -- Interpersonal expectations : effects of the experimenter's hypothesis / Robert Rosenthal -- The conditions and consequences of evaluation apprehension / Milton J. Rosenberg -- Prospective : artifact and control / Donald T. Campbell -- Book two: Experimenter effects in behavioral research -- The nature of experimenter effects -- The experimenter as observer -- Interpretation of data -- Intentional error -- Biosocial attributes -- Psychosocial attributes -- Situational factors -- Experimenter modeling -- Experimenter expectancy -- Studies of experimenter expectancy effects -- Human subjects -- Animal subjects -- Subject set -- Early data returns -- Excessive rewards -- Structural variables -- Behavioral variables -- Communication of experimenter expectancy -- Methodological implications -- The generality and assessment of experimenter effects -- Replications and their assessment -- Experimenter sampling -- Experimenter behavior -- Personnel considerations -- Blind and minimized contact -- Expectancy control groups -- Book three: The volunteer subject -- Introduction -- Characteristics of the volunteer subject -- Situational determinants of volunteering -- Implications for the interpretation of research findings -- Empirical research on voluntarism as an artifact-independent variable -- An intergrative overview.

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Electronic reproduction. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Mode of access: World Wide Web.