Rachid, a psychology lecturer, discusses the positive aspects of mercy killing with his students. After a week, he discusses the negative aspects of mercy killing with the same group of students and asks for their opinions immediately. The students who initially seemed to support mercy killing vote against it. In the context of persuasion, this scenario illustrates ________.
A. the primacy effect
B. the door-in-the-face technique
C. the foot-in-the door phenomenon
D. the recency effect
Answer: D
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