If you were a convicted defendant facing sentencing for your crime, based on anchoring and adjustment research, what would you want the judge to do before she sentenced you?
A) Give a light sentence to another criminal for a similar crime.
B) Give a harsh sentence to another criminal for a more severe crime.
C) Read a treatise on the death penalty vs. life imprisonment.
D) Roll double sixes in a lunchtime game of monopoly with her bailiff.
E) Read a newspaper article about a crime in which the defendant received a harsh sentence.
Answer: A
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a. personality characteristics that encourage prejudice, such as authoritarianism b. competition between groups for scarce resources c. clashes between the motives of the ingroup and the outgroup d. cognitive biases that promote categorization and subtyping