A newspaper runs stories that suggest that most people in the country support cutting taxes. After reading the stories, people who support raising taxes tend to keep quiet because they think their neighbors all support tax cuts. This would be an example of which of the following?

A. agenda setting
B. spiral of silence
C. social learning
D. symbolic interactionism


B. spiral of silence

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