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When participating in a psychology research experiment, you are told that the purpose of the study is to find out if tall people are more prejudiced than short people. Because you want to behave accordingly, you agree with questions on a survey of prejudice more so than you would otherwise. Your behavior in this study is a result of _________.

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the demand characteristics of the experiment.

Step-by-step explanation:

the demand characteristics of the experiment is mostly observe in physiological experiments, in such experiments participants changing and biased toward expected outcomes. It simply meant that experimenter change participants views through expectations cues to get expected results answers. Indirect ans sub-consciously participant performance is change to meet the expectations.

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