Participants in the Latané and Darley (1968) experimental study of the effects of group size on intervention in an emergency utilized
a. audiotapes of the Kitty Genovese murder.
b. a staged assault on the experimenter.
c. an audiotaped seizure.
d. participants' reports of what they would do in an emergency.
Answer: C
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