Observer effect, observer bias, observation effect, or observation bias may refer to a number of concepts, some of them closely related:
General experimental biases
Hawthorne effect, a form of reactivity in which subjects modify an aspect of their behavior, in response to their knowing that they are being studied
Observer-expectancy effect, a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to unconsciously influence the participants of an experiment
Observer bias, a detection bias in research studies resulting for example from an observer's cognitive biases
Actor–observer asymmetry, a bias one makes when forming attributions about the behavior of others or themselves
Demonstration effect, a effect on the behavior of an individual caused by observation of the actions of others and their consequences
Personal equation, the idea that different observers have different reaction times, which can introduce bias when it comes to measurements and observations
Placebo and
nocebo effects, positive and negative effects autosuggested by a patient under an inert substance or treatment
Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger
Uncertainty principle, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities in quantum mechanics, introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg
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Observer effect, observer bias, observation effect, or observation bias may refer to a number of concepts, some of them closely related:
General experimental biases
Hawthorne effect, a form of reactivity in which subjects modify an aspect of their behavior, in response to their knowing that they are being studied
Observer-expectancy effect, a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to unconsciously influence the participants of an experiment
Observer bias, a detection bias in research studies resulting for example from an observer's cognitive biases
Actor–observer asymmetry, a bias one makes when forming attributions about the behavior of others or themselves
Demonstration effect, a effect on the behavior of an individual caused by observation of the actions of others and their consequences
Personal equation, the idea that different observers have different reaction times, which can introduce bias when it comes to measurements and observations
Placebo and
nocebo effects, positive and negative effects autosuggested by a patient under an inert substance or treatment
Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger
Uncertainty principle, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities in quantum mechanics, introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg
Topics referred to by the same term
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Observer effect. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.