Multiple Choice
Darrin Lehman and Shelley Taylor studied college students who lived in Los Angeles, the site of an impending earthquake. In their interviews with students, they found that:
A) students living in seismically unsafe buildings planned to move to safer structures
B) students living in seismically unsafe buildings tended to be less familiar with safety measures than those living in safe buildings
C) students living in seismically unsafe buildings tended to underestimate the damage that would result from a major quake
D) students living in safer buildings spread more rumors about impending earthquakes
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