Goldstein and Cialdini's 2007 Study on Vicarious Self-Perception Demonstrated That

question 35

Multiple Choice

Goldstein and Cialdini's 2007 study on vicarious self-perception demonstrated that

• A)people only pay attention to their self-perception when in the presence of those who they perceive as similar to them.
• B)people lose their sense of self when observing the behavior of someone with whom they identify.
• C)people's self-perceptions are not affected by others' actions.
• D)people sometimes infer something about themselves by observing the behavior of those who they believe to be biologically similar to them.

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