When People Talk About Positive Behaviors Performed by Their Ingroup

question 146

Multiple Choice

When people talk about positive behaviors performed by their ingroup, they tend to use more abstract descriptions. This phenomenon is consistent with:

• A) the linguistic intergroup bias.
• B) the mortality salience hypothesis.
• C) the ultimate attribution error.
• D) the hostile prejudice hypothesis.

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