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  • 6 - Laboratory Experiments

  • from Part II - The Practice of Experimentation in Sociology
  • Davide Barrera, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, Klarita Gërxhani, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Bernhard Kittel, Universität Wien, Austria, Luis Miller, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council, Tobias Wolbring, School of Business, Economics and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Book:
    Experimental Sociology
    Published online:
    23 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 69-80

  • Summary

    Laboratory experiments are the type of study that most people have in mind when talking about experiments. In this chapter, we first discuss the strengths of laboratory experiments, which offer the highest degree of experimental control as compared to other types of experiments. Single factors can be manipulated according to the requirements of theories under highly controlled conditions. As such, laboratory experiments are well-placed to test theories. We then introduce a sociological laboratory experiment as a leading example, which we use as a reference for a discussion of several principles of laboratory research. Furthermore, we discuss a second goal of laboratory experiments, which is the establishment of empirical regularities in situations where theory does not provide sufficient guidance for deriving behavioral expectations. The chapter concludes with a short discussion of caveats for the analysis of sociological data generated in laboratory experiments.