According to the authors, a particularly dangerous effect of advertising is that it

a. threatens our standard ways of thinking about social groups.
b. can have strong effects on our behavior when it is presented subliminally.
c. reinforces and perpetuates stereotypes.
d. has become more interesting to people than the content of the programs themselves.

Answer: C

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