In one well-known social psychological experiment, research participants were brought into a dark room where an experimenter projected dots of light. these dots of light appeared to move slightly as they were projectedthough exactly how far they moved the participants couldn't say. when asked to estimate the distance that the light traveled, participants tended to look to others in the room, and ask them what they thought (not because they wanted to gain others' approval, but because they assumed that others knew more than they did). it would therefore be most accurate to say that participants' final estimates were based on