In reference to Case Study 9 on page 133 of your text, how could the researchers have designed the study differently, to avoid putting the participants of the study in a real-life mock crime scenario, which involved a perpetrator and a gun?

A) They could have read the participants a description of a convict who had
recently committed a crime, asking them questions about the person's personality
B) They could have paid an ex-convict to rob a gas station, video taped the
robbery, and then asked the clerk of the store questions, while posing as police
officers
C) They could have shown the participants a video of a mock crime scenario,
asking them questions about aspects of the crime they just witnessed after
they have viewed the video
D) They could have had a research assistant, who the participants had never seen
before, pull a gun on the participants, and then asked them questions about the
scenario

C