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Antonia has lots of friends and enjoys spending time with them. She is usually very talkative and affectionate. She most clearly ranks high on the Big Five trait known as

When scrolling through her social media feed to view her friends’ recent photos and posts, Claudia is likely to perceive that

Immediately after an upsetting phone call with her sister, Ana walks into the kitchen and sees her roommate’s dirty breakfast plate in the sink. “I know you left that there on purpose, just to make me mad!” she yells at her stunned roommate, leaving the apartment and slamming the door behind her. She later apologizes, explaining that her feelings from the phone call spilled over into her interaction with her roommate. Ana’s experience is best understood in terms of

Which of these is NOT a research-based strategy for achieving one’s goals?

    What is the effect of the piece rate contract, relative to fixed hourly wage, on the cost per windshield replaced?    

The next three questions refer to the following information.    Safelite is a windshield repair company. If your windshield breaks, they send a technician to fix your windshield. Safelite used to pay its technicians a fixed hourly wage of $25/hour, regardless of the number of windshields they fixed. However they thought their technicians would work harder if they were instead paid $50 per windshield replaced.  This is called a piece rate contract. Safelite wanted to test this idea, but the union would not let them change everyone’s pay. So to test their idea, they ran an experiment where workers were randomly assigned to a control group or a treatment group. For the control group, there was no change to pay. For the treatment group, workers could choose whether they wanted the fixed hourly wage contract or the piece rate contract.    Here are data from the experiment:   Group # People Average cost per windshield replaced Assigned to hourly wage 1000 82 Assigned to treatment, chose hourly wage 500 90 Assigned to treatment, chose piece rate contract 500 54    

A CEO is unsure whether to allow workers to work from home, or require them to work form home, so she runs an experiment. People who participate are randomly assigned to treatment or control. In the treatment arm, people will be allowed to work from home, and in the control arm, people will not to be allowed to work from home. Participation in the experiment is voluntary. After the experiment, we have the following data.   Group Sample size Average performance score Treatment (optional work from home) 324 4.5 Control (no optional work from home) 325 4.3 Did not participate in experiment 200 4.6 The “did not participate” also does not work from home. Should we use them in our analysis of the effects of working from home?  

Addison is shopping for a new winter jacket. Based on past shopping experience, Addison believes that a higher price means better quality, so she chooses the more expensive jacket. Addison’s decision reflects her use of

Each morning, Lucinda deactivates her home’s alarm system, producing a loud beep; opens the back door; and places her cat Fluffy’s food on the back porch. Now, Fluffy salivates to the beep. What is the neutral stimulus in this example?

What is attrition?