You and Four Other Group Members Have to Prepare a Presentation

question 212

Multiple Choice

You and four other group members have to prepare a presentation that either argues for or against increasing government spending. While everyone was in favour of increasing spending at the beginning, you expected that exploring some counterarguments (reasons to consider being against it) might change that. However, your discussion seemed to only reinforce what everyone already believed and afterwards the group was even more strongly in favour of taking that position than when they started. What could account for that?

• A)regression to the mean
• B)group polarization
• C)cognitive restructuring
• D)syntactic priming
• E)cognitive dissonance

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