A French Businessman Has a Meeting Scheduled with a Brazilian

question 40

Multiple Choice

A French businessman has a meeting scheduled with a Brazilian businessman to negotiate terms of a joint venture. The Frenchman prepares for the meeting in the way he always does when negotiating with French firms. The Frenchman assumes that the Brazilian will perceive and reason the way he does. Which of the following terms best describes the Frenchman's mistake?

• A) cognitive dissonance
• B) moral idealism
• C) parochialism
• D) projective cognitive similarity

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