Imagine that Desmond, Papachristos, and Kirk (2016) had utilized an experimental research design to examine a causal relationship between participants’ exposure to media coverage on police brutality and their confidence in police. In doing so, some participants received the “treatment” of reading about events of police brutality while other participants did not. What type of causality would they potentially be able to establish using this type of research design?
a. nomothetic
b. idiographic
c. spurious
d. mechanism
e. none of these
