The participants assigned to the control group or condition in Crum and Langer's hotel experiment were:
A) informed that their housekeeping work was beneficial exercise.
B) exposed to the independent variable.
C) not informed that their housekeeping work was beneficial exercise.
D) led to believe that housekeeping work was unhealthy and contributed to health problems.

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The control group is the group that does not receive the experimental treatment or intervention. In this case, the experimental treatment was informing the participants that their housekeeping work was beneficial exercise. Therefore, the control group was not informed that their housekeeping work was beneficial exercise.

The Participants Assigned to the Control Group or Condition in Crum