Dr. ruth decided to assess whether sexual stimulation affected people's laughter. she showed married couples either sexually stimulating or nonsexually stimulating movie scenes. then the couples watched a comedy skit and dr. ruth's assistants measured how much the couples laughed. in this research, the dependent variable consisted of:

The dependent variable consisted of people's laughter, how much the couples laughed.

Explanation:

In her research, Dr. Ruth intends to measure the relationship between sexual stimulation and people's laughter. The variable that she can manipulate is the independent variable, in this case it is the sexual stimulation; the variable that will be measured is the dependent variable, which in this case is the amount of laughter that resulted from the manipulation of the independent variable.

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