Social Psychologists Reacted to Critiques of the Field in the 1960s

question 55

Multiple Choice

Social psychologists reacted to critiques of the field in the 1960s and 1970s by doing all of the following except

• A) adopting more rigorous and formalized ethical standards.
• B) paying more attention to cross-cultural differences in cognition and behavior.
• C) denouncing experiments as unacceptably artificial.
• D) developing more stringent procedures to avoid the effects of experimenter bias.

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