Peng and Nisbett (1999) conducted studies comparing Chinese and American college students. They found that when students were presented with two apparently contradictory propositions, American students tended to ____

a. use non-pragmatic logic
b. embrace one solution and reject the other
c. accept both propositions
d. try to reconcile the two contradictory propositions


Answer: B

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