A Researcher Finds That People Who Work in a Fish

question 109

Multiple Choice

A researcher finds that people who work in a fish processing plant, doing work that most people find extremely unpleasant, still have a positive mood about 60 percent of the time. Which of the following concepts can explain such a finding?

• A) bandwagon effect
• B) framing effect
• C) the fundamental attribution error
• D) self-serving bias
• E) positivity offset

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