Ben wants to know if people tend to find individuals more at…
Ben wants to know if people tend to find individuals more attractive if they are smiling. He has 100 participants come into the lab. One third of the participants see pictures of people smiling (smiling condition). Another third of participants see pictures of the same people, but they are frowning (frowning condition). And the last third of participants see pictures of the same people but with no expression (control condition). After looking at each picture, he asks the participants to rate how attractive they find the person in the picture. He then examines whether those in smiling condition rate the people as more attractive than those in the frowning condition and control condition. In Ben’s experiment, what is the dependent variable?
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