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Diego’s friend Paul set him up on a blind date with a co-worker. For most people heading off to a blind date, the _____ of their partner is the most important factor influencing whether they will want to have a second date.

Aaliyah doesn’t want to admit that she is anxious of going on her first date. Instead, she claims that it’s her best friend Angela who is fearful. Like Aaliyah, If you assign to other people the traits that you fear you possess, then you are engaging in:

With his new stepson, Joe only wanted to use the least possible amount of external justification required to prevent undesirable behavior like pushing his sister. This process is referred to as:

Greenburg and his colleagues discuss several impacts of mood as a factor that can motivate someone’s thinking and behaving. Which of the following is true about positive mood and persuasion?

Jacob is Chinese American but fails to see the numerous prejudicial and stereotypical comments his fellow co-workers have made about him in the office. According to the text, Jacob may overlook these misperceptions about him because of _______________.

Kyle is an African American student at Waldon High School. He has decided that going to school and being a student is not that important, as a result of repeatedly experiencing stereotype threat. This is an example of:

Adrianna is a minority student at the UT-RGV. Her classmates accuse her of “acting white” during class and all their extracurricular activities on campus. This is an example of the effects of:

Because of ____________, when Aaron sees a his girlfriend smiling, he can imitate that emotion and begins to smile back at her. This is due to:

Stewart, one of a handful of minority students in his class, is burnout, stressed, and anxious about the recent announcement of class ranking at his high school. He is concerned about being in the bottom of his class. He consulted with a guidance counselor at school who instructed him to re-appraise anxiety as a normal part of academics in order to :

In Phillip Zimbardo’s classic Stanford prison experiment, the behavior of the college students selected as participants was attributed to: