Hong and Colleagues (2003) Primed Bicultural Students with American, Chinese

question 71

Multiple Choice

Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images. Why were they able to make more dispositional attributions in the American condition and more situational attributions in the Chinese condition?

• A) They had more distinctiveness information in one condition than the other.
• B) The availability heuristic was helpful.
• C) The image "prime" influenced their way of thinking.
• D) They could make self-serving attributions.

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