What Is a Strategy for Avoiding Problems with the Reference

question 29

Multiple Choice

What is a strategy for avoiding problems with the reference group effect?

• A) standardizing people's responses
• B) combining the cultures' respective reference groups
• C) asking participants not to use a reference group
• D) asking participants to compare themselves to a standard nonhuman group (such as gorillas)
• E) using more concrete items that call for less subjective judgments

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