Roger Buehler and Dale Griffin (1994)had Participants Interpret an Ambiguous

Multiple Choice

Roger Buehler and Dale Griffin (1994) had participants interpret an ambiguous newspaper report about the shooting of a suspect by police.Participants were then told that others had assigned 75% of the blame for the tragedy to the police and 25% to the suspect.Some participants conformed to others'' interpretations,while other participants did not.All participants then read the story again and provided a second interpretation of events.Results demonstrated that participants who initially conformed with other participants' versions of events _______,whereas those who initially refused to conform with other participants' versions _______.

A) changed their interpretations to bring them into line with others'; changed their interpretations to deviate more from others'.
B) later deviated from others' interpretations; changed their interpretations to bring them into line with others' interpretations.
C) changed their interpretations in a negative direction; changed their interpretations in a positive direction.
D) changed their interpretations in a positive direction; changed their interpretations in a negative direction.
E) did not change their interpretations; changed their interpretations to bring them into line with others'.