What Was the Boundary on the Acquaintanceship Effect Identified by Colvin

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Multiple Choice

What was the boundary on the acquaintanceship effect identified by Colvin and Funder (1991) ?

• A) The advantage of close acquaintances vanishes when the criterion is the ability to predict behavior in a situation similar to one that strangers have seen but acquaintances have not.
• B) Judgments made by acquaintances who have known the target for 5 years are as valid as judgments made by parents and acquaintances who have known the target for 20 years.
• C) Strangers' judgments are more accurate than acquaintances' judgments when the criterion is self-other agreement.
• D) Strangers' judgments, based on a five-minute videotape of the target's behavior, demonstrated these judges' ability to generalize to situations and contexts that were very different from the videotaped interactions.

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