June Is Participating in a Research Study

question 89

Multiple Choice

June is participating in a research study. When she arrives at the room the experimenter treats her poorly, ignoring her questions and answering her in a sharp tone. Steve participates in the same study. However, the experimenter acts in a very friendly manner toward him and goes out of his way to ensure Steve is comfortable at all times. Research on embodied cognition would predict

• A) June will make more negative trait attributions about the researcher than Steve.
• B) Steve will sign up for more future experiments than June.
• C) June will think the temperature in the laboratory was colder than Steve.
• D) Steve will be less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error than June.

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