In Their Classic Study of Rumor Transmission, Allport and Postman

question 11

Multiple Choice

In their classic study of rumor transmission, Allport and Postman found that

• A) often a black was reported, wrongly, to have been holding a knife.
• B) rumors increase the amount of violence, the more they are retold.
• C) eyewitnesses are more accurate than is generally believed.
• D) rumor transmission cannot be studied in the laboratory.

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