Imagine that a researcher conducts a study in which the
participants are either strongly for or strongly against allowing openly gay soldiers to serve in the military. The researcher presents participants with a policy that is supposedly endorsed by an authority with views similar to their own. What are the results of such a study likely to indicate?
A) Participants are most likely to be convinced by a policy that is dissimilar to their own ideas.
B) Participants are most likely to be convinced by a policy that is similar to their own ideas.
C) Participants are most likely to be convinced only by a policy with strong evidence.
D) Participants are unlikely to be convinced on the basis on authority alone.
Answer: B
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