In a classic study by Jellinek (1946) research participants who thought they were drinking alcohol (but were not) behaved in a drunken manner very similar to participants that did in fact drink alcohol. This finding is a good illustration of

a. multiple operationalism.
b. the placebo effect.
c. meta-anlysis.
d. the impact of an extraneous variable.


B

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