What Did Cohen Et Al

question 5

Multiple Choice

What did Cohen et al., find about the value of self-affirmation in their first study?

• A) Students did not demonstrate any significant impact when they engaged in a self-affirmation task.
• B) All students-regardless of race-performed better in school when they engaged in a self-affirmation task, but black students' improvement was vastly greater than that of white students.
• C) All students-regardless of race-performed better in school when they engaged in self-affirmation tasks.
• D) Approximately 70% of African American students performed better when they engaged in a self-affirmation task.

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