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SAT Evidence Question

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Question 1 · Hard · Reading and WritingAugust 2024 Batch 5 · Q12Command of Evidence · 0 solved

Psychologists Gregory Bryant, Dorsa Amir, and colleagues investigated cross-cultural perceptions of spontaneous (real) laughter and volitional (fake or forced) laughter. Study participants from 21 societies, including those in Japan and South Africa, listened to randomized recordings of 18spontaneous laughs taken from natural conversations between pairs of women and 18 volitional laughs produced separately by 18 different women in response to an experimenter's instruction to laugh. Analysis of the participants' evaluations of the laughs prompted the team to conclude that the ability to distinguish between spontaneous and volitional laughter appears to be universal across cultures. Which quotation from a psychologist not involved in the team's study would most directly weaken the team's conclusion?

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