Malica recently completed an experiment that revealed participants are less likely to offer assistance to a victim when there are many bystanders than when there are fewer bystanders. Which of the following represents a plausible follow-up experiment to extend her current findings?
A) investigating whether the rate of 911 calls for victim assistance is higher in more heavily populated cities than in less populated cities
B) looking for archival data on gender differences in helping behavior as documented by newspapers and police records
C) gathering self-report data of whether participants have provided more assistance to friends than to strangers throughout their lives
D) examining whether participants primed to think about helping are more likely to provide assistance than are those who are not primed to think about helping

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This follow-up experiment would test whether priming participants to think about helping can influence their likelihood of offering assistance, thus extending the original findings by exploring a potential psychological mechanism behind the bystander effect.

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