Information about other people's attitudes are processed by the perceiver ________ to produce the proportion of similarity effect

A) by multiplying positive affective responses and subtracting negative ones
B) by adding and subtracting positive and negative affective responses
C) in unknown ways
D) by adding positive affective responses, subtracting negative responses, and dividing by total responses
E) in a surprisingly imprecise mathematical way


Answer: E

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