We Can Conclude That Participants in Sherif's Study Exhibited Private

question 69

Multiple Choice

We can conclude that participants in Sherif's study exhibited private conformity rather than public conformity because

• A) when retested without their fellow group members, participants reverted to their original estimates.
• B) they would report their group's normative estimate when asked to respond aloud, but not when asked to respond in writing.
• C) they continued to use their group estimates when retested alone one year later.
• D) the task was too easy for people to demonstrate public conformity.

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