A Study Was Done in Which People Named as Most

question 148

Multiple Choice

A study was done in which people named as most helpful and least helpful by their friends were asked to make a contribution to a food drive.These students were also either given a reminder phone call the night before the food drive or not.As a social psychologist,you would predict that

• A)the most helpful people would tend to donate to the food drive,while the least helpful people would not.
• B)the people given the reminder phone call would donate to the food drive,while those who were not reminded would not.
• C)most people would tend not to donate,because charity drives get very low response rates overall.
• D)behavior in this situation is unpredictable.

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