You Enter an Empty Elevator

question 165

Multiple Choice

You enter an empty elevator. The next three people who enter the elevator all turn and face backward. You decide that since they are facing backward, they must know something you don't, so you turn around and face backward too. This is an example of ______.

• A) obedience
• B) altruism
• C) the phi phenomenon
• D) conformity

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