SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** An influential early study reported that holding an expansive, "powerful" body posture for a few minutes affected participants'…
**Text 1**
An influential early study reported that holding an expansive, "powerful" body posture for a few minutes affected participants' self-reported sense of power, along with measurable hormonal changes and increased willingness to take risks.
**Text 2**
Larger, more rigorous replication studies conducted later found reliable effects on participants' subjective feelings of power, but did not consistently replicate the original hormonal changes or the broader claims about risk-taking behavior.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
An influential early study reported that holding an expansive, "powerful" body posture for a few minutes affected participants' self-reported sense of power, along with measurable hormonal changes and increased willingness to take risks.
**Text 2**
Larger, more rigorous replication studies conducted later found reliable effects on participants' subjective feelings of power, but did not consistently replicate the original hormonal changes or the broader claims about risk-taking behavior.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the findings in Text 1 and Text 2?
Answer and explanation
Answer: A: The replication studies preserved a narrower version of the original effect, on subjective feelings, while failing to confirm the original's broader physiological and behavioral claims.
The passage's structure, a broad original claim followed by a replication confirming only part of it, is precisely what A names: partial confirmation instead of complete confirmation or complete rejection. B overstates Text 2 into a total refutation, when it explicitly confirms the subjective-feeling effect. C misreads two connected studies as unrelated. D contradicts Text 2, which specifically says the hormonal and risk-taking claims were not consistently replicated.
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