In a Study Conducted in the 1980s During the Height

question 18

Multiple Choice

In a study conducted in the 1980s during the height of student protests against apartheid in South Africa (Ross & Stillinger,1991) ,students gave high ratings to a plan to divest university funds from South African companies when the plan was presented in the abstract.However,when the same plan was actually proposed by the university administration,students gave it lower ratings because they saw the university administration as "the other side." This is an example of

• A) reactive devaluation.
• B) conflict negotiation.
• C) dehumanization.
• D) power-based negotiations.

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Definitions:

Meta-Analysis

A statistical method for combining the results of multiple studies on a topic to integrate findings and draw conclusions.

Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the distribution of the sum of the squares of k independent standard normal random variables.

Positive Values

Numbers greater than zero.

Degree of Freedom

The number of independent ways by which a dynamic system can move without violating any constraint applied on it, often used in statistics to determine the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.