All of the following are reasons that a journalist may misrepresent a psychology study in a magazine except: a. journalists may not personally have the scientific background to understand the study b. journalists may oversimplify the study for their readers c. journalists are working under strict publication deadlines d. journalists are unethical

d. Journalists are unethical                                  

Explanation:

Journalist most often misrepresents any psychology study published in a magazine because mostly the journalist do not have any scientific back ground of the topic to understand and also they have deadlines. Journalist in order to meet their deadlines and in order to make their readers understand the publications, they make the study very simple for the readers. Therefore, the journalist tends to misrepresent the psychology study in the magazine.