A researcher investigated how two different flirting styles affected the person being flirted with.The researcher categorized "happiness" in the person being flirted with based on the number of times that person smiled in a 15-minute period.In this research the number of smiles is
A) a hypothesis.
B) the operational definition of happiness.
C) a confound.
D) the independent variable.

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The number of smiles is the operational definition of happiness because it is the specific way in which the abstract concept of "happiness" is measured or defined in the context of this study.

A Researcher Investigated How Two Different Flirting Styles Affected the Person