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All right, so we know that we have a study in which participants are given a number of photographs with faces, and they're asked some questions about, well, these aren't all faces.
00:13
These are just entire bodies, but it's fine for illustrative purposes.
00:18
So they're asked to assess the effects of aging on the likability of the photographs, but in reality, so that's the, ruse, but in reality, they're affecting the effect of racial prejudice on their perception of the photos, and they're not told that so that they, you know, won't be swayed by trying to hide any inherent racial bias that they might have.
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So you can do a study like this, but if you're going to do that, before the participants leave, what you need to do is debrief them, which which just means inform them about the reality of the study in order to explain or resolve the deception that was inherent in the study because they thought one thing, but something else was happening...
