In a study of how feelings of ambivalence influence behavior, Durso, Briñol, and Petty (2016) investigated the effects of power prior to measuring tendencies toward action vs inaction. What did they find?
a. Feeling powerful led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand.
b. Feeling powerful led to more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task.
c. Feeling powerful neither led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand nor led to more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task.
d. Feeling powerful led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand but more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task.
Ans: d
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