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expressed more emotion, made more apologies, and used more tentative language

Explanation:

In one study, communicators who were assigned feminine avatars "expressed more emotion, made more apologies, and used more tentative language" than did those with masculine avatars.

This is to show that communicators are usually influenced by their avatars or the kind of image they are trying to represent. In other words, communicators modified their language to conform to the linguistics gender stereotypes

answer; i believe the correct answer is norming;

if im not mistaken its a. collective emotional arousal