Question

Dr. Ruth decided to assess whether violent imagery affected people's sense of humor. She showed married couples either violent or nonviolent movie scenes. Then the couples watched a comedy skit, and Dr. Ruth's assistants measured how often the couples laughed. In this research, the dependent variable consisted of________-

Answer 1

sense of humor

Step-by-step explanation:

Dependent variable: In experiment or research, generally psychological or scientific the dependent variable is defined as the variable that a researcher or the experimenter wants to measure, detect, or test in a particular study, research, or the experiment.

The dependent variable is the variable that is said to have a direct effect from the independent variable i.e, any changes in the independent variable will lead to making changes in the dependent variable and therefore they both share a causal relationship.

In reference to the question, the dependent variable in the research is a sense of humor.