Lab experiments are used to test a hypothesis in a controlled environment, by altering an independent variable to see the dependant variable being tested changes. Positivists favour this method of research as it is a more scientific approach to research, which aims to identify correlations and ...
Department of Psychological Science & Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA Pia Dietze Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA Maureen A. Craig Contributions P.D. and M.A.C. designed the experiments, collected and analys...