Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, used a technique he called "The Big Lie." He knew that people begin to believe that a statement is true simply because it has been repeated a number of times. The formal name for this technique is ________
a. the validity effect.
b. groupthink.
c. diffusion of responsibility.
d. symbolic racism.
Answer: a
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