Each of the following is true about the current period of pluralism in social psychology except that:
a. laboratory experiments have been discontinued and replaced by unobtrusive studies that take advantage of archival or correlational techniques.
b. there are important variations in the aspects of human behavior being emphasized.
c. the "socialness" of social psychology has increased owing to the influence of European social psychologists.
d. cross-cultural research is being conducted more extensively than in previous periods.
Ans: a. laboratory experiments have been discontinued and replaced by unobtrusive studies that take advantage of archival or correlational techniques.
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