In a Study of Social Identity Theory,participants Completed an Artistic-Preference

question 47

Multiple Choice

In a study of social identity theory,participants completed an artistic-preference task to determine if they had a "figure orientation" or a "group orientation." In reality,students were randomly assigned to a "figure orientation" or a "ground orientation" group.Next,they completed a questionnaire measuring a new personality trait called "surgency." Some of the participants were then told that members of their same group were high in "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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