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The Perceived Awareness of the Research Hypothesis Scale: Assessing the influence of demand characteristics
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journal contribution
posted on 2016-12-29, 04:29 authored by Mark RubinMark RubinThe Perceived
Awareness of the Research Hypothesis (PARH) scale is a 4-item quantitative self-report
method for measuring the potential influence of demand characteristics in
research situations. It can be used to help
to refute the idea that observed effects are due to demand characteristics. The present article describes the PARH scale and
discusses its advantages over other postexperimental feedback measures. Different approaches to analysing PARH data
are considered. Finally, a survey of
published research that has used the PARH scale shows that it has good internal
reliability, and that it tends to show that research participants are not
particularly aware of research hypotheses.