In a Study Described in the Text,Baldwin and His Colleagues

question 55

Multiple Choice

In a study described in the text,Baldwin and his colleagues found that graduate students rated their own work more negatively if they were first exposed to a picture of the scowling face of the program director than if they were first exposed to a picture of a smiling colleague.According to the researchers,this occurred because

• A) the picture distracted the students during the rating task.
• B) the picture caused increased physiological arousal, which, in the case of the picture of the scowling program director, was labelled as fear or anxiety.
• C) the picture students were exposed to primed a certain internal audience.
• D) the picture of the scowling program director made the students more self-aware.
• E) the picture students were exposed to determined whether they engaged in either upward or downward social comparison.

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