Which statement is consistent with the mere exposure effect?
a. The more that dating partners talk to each other, the more they realize how different they are.
b. Someone you see regularly just grows on you after a while.
c. A couple falls in love at first sight.
d. The old saying, Birds of a feather flock together..
Question 2
A researcher was interested in the effects of mood on aggression. She decided to see how receiving an insult or a compliment affects aggression, and she measured aggression by having participants administer small shocks to another participant. The researcher found that participants in the insult condition were more aggressive than those in the compliment condition. One of her colleagues reads about this research and voices concern that people in the insult condition may have been more naturally aggressive than people in the compliment condition, causing the differences observed by the researcher. This concern about pre-existing differences between participants in the two conditions would only be valid if participants were not
a. a representative sample of the population.
b. randomly assigned to the condition.
c. randomly selected from the population.
d. informed that they were involved in a correlational study.
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