participant
/pɑːɹˈtɪsəpənt/ noun B1- One who participates. · Near-synonyms: entrant, partaker· All participants must adhere to the rules of the competition.
- A human subject in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial · a research participant· In this study, participants were randomly assigned to either a control arm or a treatment arm.
Plural participants
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“You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night’s mystery.
One of her most famous empirical demonstrations involved showing participants a brief video of a minor traffic accident.
Participants who were asked how fast the vehicles were traveling when they collided with each other provided significantly higher speed estimates than those who heard the word bumped.
In her renowned lost in the mall study, participants were presented with a booklet containing three true childhood narratives and one completely fictitious event provided by their relatives.
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