Experimenters, being social interactants in research, can influence subjects' responses to experimental manipulations. Our observations indicate that the personalities of the experimenters are related to the maintenance of their subjects' subjective intoxication in a marihuana experiment. Caution is advised in generalizing from laboratory experiments where such non-drug factors are not considered.
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