Multiple Choice
According to information presented in this chapter, researchers provided participants with both plausible and silly persuasive arguments both in favor of and against racial segregation, and then tested participants' memory for those persuasive arguments. Their results suggested that
A) Northerners were more rational than Southerners.
B) prejudiced participants were less rational than nonprejudiced participants.
C) something as "objective" as memory can be distorted for self-serving reasons.
D) people recall plausible arguments and ignore the implausible ones.
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