Question

Patwardhan et al. report data from a study where they hired experimental confederates to attend speed dating events, posing as daters, and carefully take notes on the behaviors of the daters. what type of research design did they use?

Answer 1

the answer to this quesiton is naturalistic observation
naturalistic observation refers to a type of research in which scientists will observe the subject at their natural environment.
In this particular case, 'daters' are the subject of their experiment and 'dating events' are the natural environment.