Why Is It Useful to Study Extreme Situations, Like the Experience

Multiple Choice

Why is it useful to study extreme situations, like the experience of the survivors of the plane crash discussed in Chapter 3, who had to eat human flesh in order to stay alive?

A) People are more willing to tell others how they really feel, and to act more authentically, after experiencing a crisis.
B) People's true natures are evident in extreme situations because characteristics that typically serve as the basis of power (e.g., gender, class, and race/ethnicity) don't matter in these settings.
C) The fear individuals experience in crisis situations enhances their memories, so they are readily able to report the events that transpired to an interviewer.
D) The social processes through which people construct their realities are more obvious in extreme than in common, everyday situations.
E) These events show us how people would act if they existed outside of a society.