What Is the Similar-To-Me Effect

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Multiple Choice

What is the similar-to-me effect?

• A)It is the tendency to perceive others who are like ourselves more positively than we perceive people who are different.
• B)It is the tendency to focus attention on individuals who are conspicuously different from us.
• C)It is the tendency to perceive individuals with a higher position in the social hierarchy more positively than we perceive those with a lower position in the social hierarchy.
• D)It is the tendency to perceive individuals with disabilities as noncontributors to society.
• E)It is the tendency of individuals to see themselves more positively than others around them.

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