Hovland and Sears found that, from 1882 to 1930, you could predict an increase in lynchings when the price of cotton declined. This information is best thought of as evidence for:
A) the authoritarian personality
B) the ultimate attribution error
C) scapegoating
D) the self-fulfilling prophecy
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