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The prisoner’s dilemma is best described as a(n) ____.​

As discussed in the text, the sociologist Phil Kunz once performed a study in which he sent 578 Christmas cards to a sample of complete strangers living in Chicago, Illinois. He received a total of 117 cards in return, as well as several phone calls—despite the fact that he did not know any of these people. Kunz’s findings provide good evidence of ____.​

​Dierdre smokes a pack of Marlboro Reds every day. Social psychologists would say that this is a self-defeating behavior ____.

​People tend to say that they would prefer to have $1000 today rather than $1200 two weeks from now—even though, logically, they would be better off with the $1200 in two weeks. The phenomena underlying this tendency is known as ____.

Research by Murray and Holmes suggests that people who ____ their partner’s bad points and ____ their partner’s good points have the happiest relationships.​

Compared to persuasion via the peripheral route, persuasion via the central route ____.​

Men who have looked at pictures of women in bikinis and lingerie tend to be ____ in the ultimatum game.​

In Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, infants develop a fear of books after books are repeatedly presented with a scary loud noise. In this fictional example, the loud noise is a(n) ____.​

​Kirk works hard to earn as much money as he can. He tries to be a good steward of his money, using it to buy a solid house for his family to live in, healthy food for them to eat, cars so they can get around town, and so forth. Kirk’s approach to money is most consistent with which of the following metaphors that Lea and Webley proposed to explain the human motivation towards the pursuit of money?

​Young actors, models, and musicians often get involved with drugs and alcohol very quickly after rising to success. While there are many factors that contribute to this pattern, it is sometimes suggested that young stars get “mixed up” with drugs and alcohol so that they have a good “excuse” in case their career takes a turn for the worse (i.e., they can simply blame misfortunes on “partying too much” rather than on a personal lack of talent—which would seem much more painful!). If this is true, then it would be correct to say that stars who “party too much” are often engaging in ____.