The Difference Between a Harshness Bias and a Leniency Bias

Multiple Choice

The difference between a harshness bias and a leniency bias is that:

A) the former involves selecting employee ratings in the middle of a scale and the latter involves selecting employee ratings toward the ends.
B) the former involves rating employees more severely and the latter involves rating employees more favorably than their performance merit.
C) the former involves assigning similar scores to items that are near each other on a questionnaire and the latter involves leaving out items placed close together.
D) the former involves judging others more negatively when they are like oneself and the latter involves judging others more positively when they are like oneself.