In Getontology class, your professor gives an assignment that requires you to write two obituaries for yourself, one for if you were to die tomorrow, the other for if you were to die at age 80. Social psychologists accurately predicted that the anxiety associated with this assignment would lead students to be ______ likely to derogate (that is, "put down") ______ numbers.

A. more; outgroup
B. more; ingroup
C. less; outgroup
D. less; ingroup


Answer: C. less; outgroup

Psychology

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