Baron and Bell (1976) found that high temperatures do not necessarily lead to increased aggression. Generalizing this result to an urban setting, it might be concluded that long hot summers do not lead to aggression. This illustrates the general problem of
a. incorrect interpretations of the results of a laboratory experiment.
b. variable representativeness.
c. subject generalization.
d. an inappropriate inference based on data from a flawed experiment.
B
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