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The Textbook Describes a Study That Used the Minimal Group

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The textbook describes a study that used the minimal group paradigm to divide participants into two groups.In this study, participants filled out an attitude questionnaire twice-once to record their own attitudes and once to record how they thought another ingroup or outgroup member might respond.Results showed that participants tended to


A) assume that their beliefs were more similar to those of fellow ingroup members than to those of outgroup members.
B) estimate ingroup members' beliefs more accurately than outgroup members' beliefs.
C) overestimate variability in ingroup attitudes but to underestimate variability in outgroup attitudes.
D) assume that ingroup members held more socially desirable beliefs than outgroup members.

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