According to the text, when Nicholas Bowman and Ron Tamborini conducted an

experimental investigation of the mood-management theory, they concluded that, in
general:



a. people in negative moods DO NOT benefit from playing a computer game.
b. people in negative moods DO benefit from playing a computer game.
c. their results were ambiguous due to the lack of a random sample of participants.
d. their results were ambiguous due to the lack of random assignment to
experimental conditions.
e. the theory of mood-management is completely disconfirmed.


b.

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