A young doctor is part of a doctors' team that is operating on a critical patient. Her team decides to follow a shortcut method to avoid blood loss during the surgery. The young doctor is aware of the risks of such a shortcut method; however, she expresses her doubts less quickly than other doctors and gets ridiculed for her dissenting views. The young doctor most likely exhibits ________ in this scenario.

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The young doctor is slower to express her dissenting views compared to others, which aligns with the minority slowness effect, where individuals with minority opinions are slower to express them due to fear of ridicule or social pressure.

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