Zimbardo's prison experiment demonstrates that ____ can overpower ____, and people may conform to expected roles
A) personality traits; situational norms
B) roles; injunctive norms
C) situations; personalities
D) informational norms; descriptive norms
E) implicit norms; injunctive norms
Answer: C
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