When thinking about a bad or happy event and predicting our future level of happiness, we tend to ________.

As an exchange student, you notice that standards of beauty are much different in the country you are visiting. Billboards and advertisements display women that are not as thin as in the United States. You conclude that this difference in standards of beauty is the result of different

Fear-arousing messages are most effective when they

Although he made a promise to himself to not take illegal drugs, Tom gave into peer pressure at a party to smoke marijuana because he did not want to be rejected by the others. Tom’s conformity is a result of

Which of the following circumstances contributes to people becoming deindividuated?

Under the definition that is in the text, which of the following is NOT a group?

An audience is more likely to perceive a speaker as sincere when

_____________ set up an experiment, known as the Stanford Prison experiment, where people played the role of a prison guard. The goal was to observe if this authority position would cause them to act differently.

Beth believes that all sorority members are unintelligent and self-centered. After meeting Kim who as a 4.0 GPA and spends 20 hours each week volunteering to help the disabled children Beth says “well, she’s the exception to the rule.”  This is an example of

Two or more people who interact with and influence one another for  longer than a few moments is what social psychologists call a