Researchers Michael Morris and Kaiping Peng Compared Chinese Versus American

question 9

Multiple Choice

Researchers Michael Morris and Kaiping Peng compared Chinese versus American newspaper reports of two different mass murders. Morris and Peng found that:

• A)the Chinese reporters were more likely than the American reporters to emphasize personal, internal attributes in explaining the actions of the murderer, such as the person's "bad temper" or "history of being mentally unstable."
• B)Chinese and American reporters both tended to emphasize situational, external factors in explaining the behavior of each murderer.
• C)if the murderer was of the same nationality as the reporter, the reporter was much more likely to blame the victim because of hindsight bias.
• D)American reporters were more likely than the Chinese reporters to emphasize personal, internal attributes in explaining the actions of the murderer, such as the person's "bad temper" or "history of being mentally unstable."