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Two coworkers observe their supervisor walking briskly past them without saying good morning. One coworker, who recently read news about company budget cuts, thinks ‘We are about to be laid off!’ The second coworker, whose child is home sick, thinks ‘She must be rushing home for a family emergency.’ This difference shows that:

Based on research regarding the mechanism of emotional contagion (Hatfield et al., 1993), what is the correct sequential order of events when a person ‘catches’ another’s emotion?

When a university surveys 500 faculty members, 88% rate their own teaching effectiveness as ‘above the average faculty member.’ Statistically, only about 50% can be above average. This cognitive bias is known as the:

Evolutionary strategies that favor the survival and reproductive success of an individual’s genetic relatives, sometimes even at a personal cost to the individual, are known as ________ selection.

Elena is typically soft-spoken and avoids attention at her office job. However, during her company’s annual charity bowling tournament, she cheers loudly, high-fives her teammates, and aggressively trash-talks the opposing team. According to Kurt Lewin’s framework, B = f(P, E), what is the primary driver of Elena’s behavior?

While driving on an empty highway late at night with no other cars or police officers in sight, Carlos approaches a cardboard cutout poster of a police cruiser and immediately taps his brakes. Carlos’s reduction in speed is influenced by which form of ‘presence’ of others?

The variables of stress and depression are positively correlated. This means…

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship?

Sometimes we are skeptical about research results from psychological studies. What leads to this skepticism?

Culture: There are three groups of questions below: Readings, Film, and Discussions. In each group, there are two questions. Please select one question from each group and answer it in a concise manner with precise details. Please answer in English or French. Readings Film Discussions What did you learn about the French food and meals over the course of the semester? How is it similar to or different from how we eat in the US? We read about several famous French women over the course of the semester. Which one did you find most interesting and why? Please discuss only those listed in our textbook. Based on what you saw in the Roman-photo, compare the experiences of college students in France to those of students in the United States. Are they similar or different? Explain. Which of the characters that you saw in the Roman-photo videos do you identify with the most and why? *Please give specific examples from the Roman-photo videos to support your answers above. Over the course of the semester, you completed both video assignments and written discussion boards. Which assignment type did you prefer and why?  To create a stronger sense of community in this class, you were asked to respond to peer posts each leçon. Describe your experience interacting with classmates in the discussion boards. Is there one peer you particularly enjoyed engaging with?