Participants in One Experiment Selected Topics to Discuss from a List

question 19

Multiple Choice

Participants in one experiment selected topics to discuss from a list provided by the experimenter. They took turns discussing topics until each participant had spoken 12 times. When researchers examined the intimacy levels of the topics selected, they found each of the following results except one. Which one?

• A) Participants began their conversations with relatively nonintimate topics.
• B) The intimacy of the topics increased as the experiment progressed.
• C) Participants tended to match their partner's level of intimacy.
• D) Participants became more anxious as the intimacy levels of the topics increased.

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