The Front Page of the Newspaper Has a Story About

question 25

Multiple Choice

The front page of the newspaper has a story about a man wearing a clerical collar who robbed several people in their homes and escaped. That the victims readily allowed this trustworthy-looking man to enter their home shows the potential disadvantages of relying on:

• A)informational social influence.
• B)the rule of reciprocity.
• C)normative social influence.
• D)the process of social categorization.

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Random Variable

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Bernoulli Distribution

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