In a study by Bargh and colleagues (1996), participants were exposed to stereotypes about the elderly through a scrambled sentence task. What was their main finding?
a. Participants primed with the elderly stereotype walked more slowly down the hallway than those who were not primed.
b. It took the experimenter longer to debrief participants primed with the elderly stereotype than those who were not primed.
c. Participants primed with the elderly stereotype actually walked faster down the hallway than those who were not primed.
d. There were no differences found between those participants primed with the elderly stereotype and those who were not primed.
Answer: A
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