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Furthermore it is recommended to add a silent control condition.

Participants in the control condition were asked to describe their living room.

In control conditions children worked alone, either seeing one view only or walking round the table with the experimenter to see both.

There was a control condition that only received the second smaller request.

In the control condition the female confederate only made the second smaller request.

Are control conditions needed, and what should they be?

Others were not asked to sign a petition before making a donation (control condition).

In the control condition this was not the case.

Their peers in the control (no intervention) condition, on the other hand, demonstrated only 65% accuracy.

In the "control" condition, participants were instructed to simply observe the product.