In collecting data in correlational research, it is important to minimize which two effects?

A) The tendency of investigators to find what they expect to find and to influence the behavior of participants
B) The politeness effect and the social desirability effect
C) The Hawthorne effect and the social desirability effect
D) Experimenter reactivity and the Hawthorne effect

Answer: A

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