Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Keith Davis and E

question 157

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment conducted by Keith Davis and E.E.Jones (1960) were induced to provide hurtful feedback to another person (actually a confederate,of course) .After providing such mean assessments of his performance,participants then evaluated him privately.After providing an unsolicited criticism,these participants' evaluations of the confederate were ____ because the ____.

• A)more positive; participants regretted having hurt an innocent victim
• B)more negative; participants convinced themselves that the victim deserved it
• C)more negative; victim did not stand up for himself after the insults
• D)more positive; participants wanted to assuage their feelings of guilt

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Definitions:

Qualitative Research

Research that considers individual qualities instead of quantities (numbers).

Corporal Punishment

Discipline techniques that hurt the body (corpus) of someone, from spanking to serious harm, including death.

Ethnic Groups

Categories of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences.

Independent Variable

In an experiment, the variable that is added by the researcher to see if it affects the dependent variable.