What have archival analyses of sexually explicit materials revealed about pornography usage?

Which of the following best defines the term “sample”?

There is invariably a trade-off between ________ and ________ in social psychology experiments.

A researcher is interested in the effects of self-esteem on people’s choice of romantic partner. She asks her study participants to complete a measure of self-esteem and to bring in separate photos of themselves and their significant others. She then has these photos rated for attractiveness by a panel of independent judges, and relates the relative attractiveness of a person’s significant other to the person’s self-esteem. The study just described is a(n)

Which of the following pairs of variables are most likely to be negatively correlated?

Suppose the research by Donnerstein and Berkowitz (1981) regarding the role of violent pornography on aggression could be generalized to women aggressors. What could you conclude?

Recall the description of the political poll taken by Literary Digest about the Landon vs. Roosevelt election. This is an example of a potential error that can be made when doing survey research involving political polls. What is the lesson that survey researchers learned from this error?

In describing the intricacies of cross-cultural research, the authors of your text assert that it is not as simple as translating one’s materials into an appropriate language, traveling to another culture, and conducting the experiment there. Which of the following statements best captures the role of construals in making cross-cultural research very difficult to do?

Consider the following (fictitious) conclusion reached by a social psychologist: “After analyzing a sample of over 578 experiments, we have concluded that the question of whether men are more likely than women to help is difficult to answer. Based on the findings of this large number of studies, we have concluded that men are more likely to help when helping demands physical risk or ‘chivalry’; otherwise, there are no reliable gender differences in helping.” This conclusion about the reliability of the relationship between gender and helping was most likely based on

The idea of “telling more than you can know” (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977) is the premise that people may report why they respond a certain way, but that their reports about causes of behavior reflect