... other condition. The research was found to be valid using the Mann-Whitney-U test at the level of significance of p?0.01 for a one tailed test, this was checked and exceeded which gives the researchers a high level of confidence in their results as this level of validity on the mann-whitney-U test is highly stringent and therefore it is less likely the results are due to chance, as the probability is less than or equal to 1%. However, just because the results are said to not be down to chance does not mean that they are 100% valid due to the possibility of confounding variables, such a weather, unfairly affecting the results. This study was drew key ideas from three main pieces of previous research to function effectively and to investigate their truths, namely, Asch (1946), Allport and Postman (1947) and Bruner and Taguiri (1954). Overall, the findings supported the previous research but ...

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