A research study by Barlett and others (2009) examined how students behaved when playing a violent video game (Mortal Kombat) or a nonviolent game. They found that students who played the violent game were willing to do which of the following?
A) Consume higher amounts of alcohol when given permission to drink.
B) Choose to get paid more for participating even though they knew others would be paid less as a result.
C) Write a letter of complaint to a consumer company that included more profanity.
D) Administer more electric shocks to a helpless animal in a cage.
E) Force others to swallow larger amounts of hot sauce.
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