In a study investigating the effectiveness of a new cognitive-behavioural coaching program designed to reduce procrastination in university students, researchers compared a group receiving the active coaching intervention with a control group who received a standard academic study-skills lecture.
The researchers were concerned that the outcome of the study might be influenced by the problems of demand characteristics and investigator effects.
Explain what the researchers could do to eliminate or reduce demand characteristics and investigator effects in this study.
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