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Animal behavior research is getting better at keeping observer bias from sneaking in – but there’s still room to improve

  • Written by Todd M. Freeberg, Professor and Associate Head of Psychology, University of Tennessee
imageWhat you expect can influence what you think you see.Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of physical contact in cattle herds of different...

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