Answer: Observer - expectancy effect.
Explanation: Dr. Larsen being the observer or experimenter may subconsciously introduce a sort of cognitive bias into the experiment resulting the wrong or incorrect interpretation of the result or outcome of the experiment such that it conforms to their hypothesis. Observer-expectancy bias also called experimenter-expectancy bias can be controlled by adopting a method in which observer or experimenter is blind to the experiment's condition and thus the observer's expectation regarding the hypothesis is conained or controlled.