When Canadian University Students Were Made to Focus on the Scarcity

question 53

Multiple Choice

When Canadian university students were made to focus on the scarcity of jobs in Canada and then were told that a group of immigrants from "Sandir" would be arriving in Canada,they construed (or interpreted) the traits of Sandirians in more negative ways than students who hadn't focused on job scarcity.This result supports

• A) the notion that people are particularly likely to make the ultimate attribution error when judging out-groups.
• B) predictions made by realistic conflict theory.
• C) predictions made by stereotype priming theory.
• D) the principle of normative conformity.
• E) the hypothesis that the emotions a group arouses in us cause stereotypes to be activated.

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