Participants Are Sitting in Their Own Separate Testing Rooms and Have

question 16

Multiple Choice

Participants are sitting in their own separate testing rooms and have been asked to write statements about what they think about themselves.After a while, a mirror mysteriously appears on the wall in each room.How much do their self-descriptions written before and after the mirror appeared differ?

• A) Participants from all cultures became more self-critical after the mirror appeared.
• B) American participants viewed themselves more positively before the mirror appeared and Japanese participants viewed themselves more negatively after the mirror appeared.
• C) American participants viewed themselves more negatively after the mirror appeared and Japanese participants viewed themselves more positively after the mirror appeared.
• D) American participants viewed themselves more negatively after the mirror appeared but Japanese participants did not change their views after the mirror appeared.
• E) Participants from all cultures viewed themselves more positively after the mirror appeared.

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