In One Study Supporting Social Identity Theory, Participants Were First

question 121

Multiple Choice

In one study supporting social identity theory, participants were first told randomly that, on the basis of their aesthetic judgments, they were part of either a "figure orientation" or a "ground orientation" group. Some of the participants were then told that members of their same group were high in a trait called "surgency." What were the results of this study?

• A) Participants assigned to the "figure" group rated themselves as high in surgency.
• B) Participants assigned to the "ground" group rated themselves as low in surgency.
• C) Participants who believed their ingroup was high in surgency rated themselves as high in surgency.
• D) Participants who believed that the outgroup was high in surgency rated themselves as high in surgency.

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Definitions:

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