A
researcher studying the effects of environment on mood asks students to
sit alone in a waiting room for 15 minutes at the beginning of an
experiment. Half of the students are assigned to a room with white walls
and half of the students are assigned to a room with bright yellow walls.
After 15 minutes in the waiting room, each student is brought into the lab
and given a mood-assessment questionnaire, which gives them a score
from 0 to 100 on their overall feeling of happiness (with higher scores
indicating more happiness). What is the dependent variable?