You Are Interested in Investigating Whether the Presence of Extremely

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You are interested in investigating whether the presence of extremely attractive people negatively influences participants' perspective taking ability. However, you have not decided on the best way to experimentally manipulate the "presence of extremely attractive people." How could you construct an environmental manipulation of the presence of extremely attractive people? What would a stimulus manipulation of attractive people look like? How could you create a priming manipulation of the presence of attractive people? Is it possible to design an instructional manipulation of the presence of attractive people? In this example, which type of manipulation do you think would be the most effective - why?