What is the independent and dependent variable? A research a candy factory is developing tasting jelly beans. He hypothesized that experiencing exotic flavors would increase for traditional candy flavors. First, he had participants come into the lab, one at a time, and allowed them to eat as manyjelly beans as they wanted from a dish of 50 on the tableThe flavors in the dish were cherry, tangerine chocolate lemon, and cotton candy. The next time they came into the lab, he mixed in new flavors that looked similar to the old ones but had unique flavors rubber eraser, cough medicine, dirtsalt, pencil shavings. Finally, the same participants were brought in the lab again to repeat the procedure from Time 1.