If You Inflate the Evaluation of People with Whom You

question 152

Multiple Choice

If you inflate the evaluation of people with whom you have something in common,you are committing a:

• A) leniency error.
• B) similar-to-me error
• C) recency error.
• D) central tendency error.

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