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 2,000 and your second friend says 3,000. You don't know the correct answer, so you say 2,500. Your response is similar to the judgments made by participants in which study?

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Your response is similar to the judgments made in Sherif's (1936) study on the autokinetic effect, where participants' estimates of a light's movement in a dark room converged over time due to informational social influence, reflecting a form of group consensus similar to averaging the guesses of your friends.

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