In Kraut and Johnston’s study of bowlers, the researchers found that bowlers were much more likely to smile when they _____ than when they _____.

________ occurs following a social blunder that is committed in front of an audience of others. Such a blunder suggests that the actor may possess some personal deficiency, as occurs when forgetting someone’s name (a mental lapse), tripping or stumbling (a physical pratfall), or lacking reasonable control over one’s physical functions.

________ revolves around subjective experiences of being snobbish, stuck-up, conceited, arrogant, egotistical, and smug, and it is rooted in internal, stable, and uncontrollable attributions.

People socially share their emotions with others primarily to:

In the chicken-and-egg debate over whether emotions are caused primarily by biology or by cognitions, the conclusion reached by the text is that:

The principal antecedent of ________ is physical and psychological restraint or interference, as in the experience showing that a situation is “not what it should be.”

_______ are short-lived psychological-physiological phenomena the present efficient modes of adaptation to changing environmental demands.

The purpose of the cross-cultural investigations that tested whether human beings display similar facial expressions of emotion regardless of cultural/national differences was to demonstrate that:

Which one of the following best represents Lazarus’s concept of primary appraisal?

According to Lazarus, a(n) _________ appraisal, which occurs after some reflection, involves an estimate of whether one can do anything to cope with a potential stressor.