In a Study Described in the Text,Baldwin and His Colleagues

Multiple Choice

In a study described in the text,Baldwin and his colleagues found that graduate students rated their own work more negatively if they were first exposed to a picture of the scowling face of the program director than if they were first exposed to a picture of a smiling colleague.According to the researchers,this occurred because

A) the picture distracted the students during the rating task.
B) the picture caused increased physiological arousal, which, in the case of the picture of the scowling program director, was labelled as fear or anxiety.
C) the picture students were exposed to primed a certain internal audience.
D) the picture of the scowling program director made the students more self-aware.
E) the picture students were exposed to determined whether they engaged in either upward or downward social comparison.