When Zimbardo Compared the Aggression of Students Who Were Anonymous

question 78

Multiple Choice

When Zimbardo compared the aggression of students who were anonymous (by virtue of wearing hoods over their faces and shapeless overcoats over their bodies) with that of experimental participants in a non-anonymous condition:

• A) the experimental participants were more aggressive in the anonymous condition, supporting the deindividuation hypothesis
• B) the experimental participants were less aggressive in the anonymous condition, supporting the emergent norm hypothesis
• C) the experimental participants in the anonymous condition showed more evidence of contagion
• D) there was no difference in the aggression of the experimental participants in the two conditions
• E) both a and c

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