The trick does not work if you have already seen the gorilla: how anticipatory effects contaminate pre-treatment measures in field experiments

Objectives If participants can anticipate the intervention, they may alter their responses prior to exposure to treatment. One often-ignored consequence of these “anticipatory effects” (AE) is an impact on the pre-treatment measurement. We explore this potential contamination and present practical o...

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Authors: Ariel, Barak (Author) ; Bland, Matthew P. (Author) ; Sutherland, Alex (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of experimental criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-66
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Anticipatory effects
Pretest measures
Bias
Experiments