Which of the following is an example of group polarization?
a. A basketball team—simply by reason of being a cohesive group—automatically identifies another team as a "rival."
b. A political committee tends to make more extreme decisions than any of its individual members would alone.
c. A group of students tends, automatically, to divide themselves up into several smaller groups or cliques.
d. A student council divides itself into two directly opposing points of view when debating new issues.
B
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