Recall That Even When Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Jones

question 17

Multiple Choice

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. In this experiment, how could people have avoided the fundamental attribution error?

• A) They could have assumed that the essay writer's attitude was pro-Castro, and as extreme as that of the essay he or she wrote.
• B) They could have assumed that the essay writer's attitude was pro-Castro, but probably less extreme than the essay he or she wrote.
• C) They could have assumed that the essay writer's attitude was anti-Castro.
• D) They could have assumed nothing, and rated the essay writer's attitude at the midpoint of the pro- and anti-Castro scale.

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