If Researchers Found That People Take Longer to Identify Words

question 46

Multiple Choice

If researchers found that people take longer to identify words such as assertive and bold as "strong" when the words are associated with female faces rather than with male faces, this finding would illustrate

• A) deindividuation.
• B) implicit prejudice.
• C) cognitive dissonance.
• D) the fundamental attribution error.

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