Imagine That You Are Designing a Study to Investigate a Sensitive

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are designing a study to investigate a sensitive topic. Which of the following study designs would cause the most unnecessary harm?

A) randomly assigning half of the participants to personally encounter the sensitive phenomenon
B) studying the phenomenon in its natural habitat without interfering
C) having participants read secondhand accounts of the phenomenon rather than experiencing it themselves
D) having participants write about a past experience with the phenomenon rather than subjecting them re-experience it for the study