Milgram believes city dwellers learn to prevent attentional overload by doing all of the following EXCEPT
A)reducing their territorial behavior.
B)engaging in brief, superficial interpersonal contacts.
C)disregarding nonessential events.
D)fending off others by adopting cold and unfriendly expressions.

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Milgram suggests that city dwellers manage attentional overload by engaging in superficial interactions, ignoring nonessential events, and sometimes appearing cold or unfriendly to keep others at a distance. However, reducing territorial behavior is not mentioned as a strategy for managing sensory overload.

Milgram Believes City Dwellers Learn to Prevent Attentional Overload by Doing