Members of Stigmatized Groups Often Cannot Tell Whether Many of Their

question 59

Multiple Choice

Members of stigmatized groups often cannot tell whether many of their experiences have the same origins as those of nonstigmatized groups or whether these experiences are the result of prejudice.Research on this attributional predicament in performance-based contexts has shown that

• A) black participants' self-esteem was affected by negative feedback but not by positive feedback.
• B) black participants were more likely to seek negative feedback than positive feedback.
• C) black participants' self-esteem was more strongly affected by both positive feedback and negative feedback, compared to white students.
• D) black participants' self-esteem was not affected by positive or negative feedback if they knew that their evaluators could see them.

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