According to the text, which of the following statements best summarizes the findings of
Bushman & Cantor’s study on how movie ratings affect people’s entertainment choices?
a. MPAA ratings have no effect on people’s entertainment choices.
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b. Evaluative ratings that restrict certain members of the audience from seeing a
movie tend to attract viewers to the movie, but mere descriptions of movie content
that carry no restrictions fail to attract viewers.
c. BOTH evaluative ratings and descriptive ratings for movies increase the
attractiveness of a movie—a finding that Bushman & Cantor interpreted as strong
evidence for the “forbidden fruit effect.”
d. BOTH evaluative ratings and descriptive ratings for movies increase the
attractiveness of a movie—a finding that Bushman & Cantor noted was NOT
particularly consistent with the “forbidden fruit effect.”
e. In general, movie ratings are NOT used by potential viewers to guide their
curiosity about movie content.
d.
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