Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Davis and Jones (1960)

question 86

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment conducted by Davis and Jones (1960) were instructed to provide hurtful feedback to another person (actually a confederate, of course) . After providing such mean assessments of his performance, participants then evaluated him privately. After providing this criticism, the participants' evaluations of the confederate were more __________ because the __________.

• A) positive; participants regretted having hurt an innocent victim
• B) negative; participants convinced themselves that the victim deserved it
• C) negative; victim did not stand up for himself after the insults
• D) positive; participants wanted to assuage their feelings of guilt

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