The Textbook Describes a Study That Used the Minimal Group

question 19

Multiple Choice

The textbook describes a study that used the minimal group paradigm to divide participants into two groups.In this study, participants filled out an attitude questionnaire twice-once to record their own attitudes and once to record how they thought another ingroup or outgroup member might respond.Results showed that participants tended to

• A) assume that their beliefs were more similar to those of fellow ingroup members than to those of outgroup members.
• B) estimate ingroup members' beliefs more accurately than outgroup members' beliefs.
• C) overestimate variability in ingroup attitudes but to underestimate variability in outgroup attitudes.
• D) assume that ingroup members held more socially desirable beliefs than outgroup members.

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