You're out with friends when a talk show host walks up and asks if you'll answer a few trivia questions on camera.When he asks how many feet are in a mile,your first friend says 2000 and your second friend says 3000.You don't know the correct answer,so you say 2500.Your response is similar to the judgments made by participants in which of the following studies?

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Sherif (1936) conducted a study on the autokinetic effect, where participants' judgments of a stationary point of light in a dark room converged to a group norm, similar to how your answer was influenced by your friends' responses.

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