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The researchers also measured to what extent the participants thought the bystanders agreed with the confronter based on their reaction.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024

When the confronter was left without support, participants concluded that the bystanders did not strongly agree, leading them to think the norm to socially distance was weak.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024

Conversely, staying silent, or changing the subject to avoid awkwardness, can be interpreted by others as a lack of agreement and undermines the efforts of the confronter.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024

The task of defending those decisions, however tentative they remain, has largely been handled by Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, who has emerged as the Administration's principal confronter.

From Time Magazine Archive