In an experiment, four-person chains of participants conveyed a message about a restaurant using worm meat in its hamburger. In one condition, the information was given to the first person along with an indication of uncertainty as to whether it was true, while the control condition had no such expression of uncertainty. By the fourth retelling of this message, the original uncertainty had:
a. was as strong as ever
b. was still significant although less so
c. had disappeared
d. had reversed – the fourth participant was more certain than the first
e. the worm had turned
Ans: c
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