... have been a problem in the study of Thigpen and Cleckly, on multiple personality. Maybe the whole of the Eve White thing was just acting to please the psychologists. She maybe wanted to make a name for herself therefore acting the way in which the psychologists wanted her to she might have made a name for herself. This could have also been a problem in the Baron Cohen et al study on autism. The participants may have only tried to guess the correct answer just to please the teacher. A further problem, which was particularly seen in the Freud of Little Hans, was that the information was second hand information, form the father of Little Hans rather than from him. The problem is that we cannot get the real picture of what Little Hans was dreaming about because it did not come from primary source. Also demand characteristics could also ...

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