Wesley conducts research that involves meeting with subjects in a controlled setting. He treats some subjects kindly but behaves rudely to others. He notes how the different groups react to his behavior to make inferences about how people react to kindness and rudeness in certain situations. His research would best be described as

a. survey research.
b. ethnography.
c. experimental research.
d. comparative research.


Answer: c. experimental research.

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