You Are Doing a Group Project with 8 Other People

question 54

Multiple Choice

You are doing a group project with 8 other people and it's due in one week.One group member suggests that it shouldn't be very hard to finish it up and that it can be completed the night before it needs to be handed in.You feel that this is a bad idea but nobody else seems to be reacting negatively to his suggestion.Later you find out that others also believed that his plan bad idea.This illustrates an example of:

• A) biased processing.
• B) the chameleon effect.
• C) an injunctive norm.
• D) pluralistic ignorance.

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