Question

Margaret is passionately committed to animal rights. at an evening lecture required for her biology class, she learned that the title of the speaker's talk was "the importance of animal experimentation to medical advances." offended and sure that the speaker had nothing ethical or interesting to say, margaret paid no attention at all during the lecture. according to your textbook, the primary cause of margaret's poor listening was

Answer 1

She jumped to conclusions. When Margaret got offended, she made a choice not to listen any more because she was sure that the speaker had nothing informative or moral to say, because they had violated her ethical values. However, this was not necessarily true, and Margaret missed out on what might have been a productive lecture as a result.