Imagine You Are a Contestant on the Popular Game Show

question 76

Multiple Choice

Imagine you are a contestant on the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and you have been asked a question that you don't know the answer to. You use the option to poll the audience for their opinion of the correct answer. Even though you think differently, you become convinced that the audience is correct as 87 percent of them agree on a particular answer. You have experienced which psychological phenomenon?

• A) social conversion
• B) deindividuation.
• C) blind obedience.
• D) groupthink.

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