All of These Are Ways for a Person Expressing a Minority

question 136

Multiple Choice

All of these are ways for a person expressing a minority opinion to increase their likelihood of influence, EXCEPT:

• A) being self-confident.
• B) appearing willing to compromise.
• C) seeming to belong to a different in-group from the person being persuaded.
• D) getting a member of the majority to defect to the minority position.

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