People sometimes do the exact opposite of what someone is trying to persuade them to do. For example, when parents tell their children not to look in certain drawers or cabinets, children sometimes take a sneak peek into these areas just because they were told not to. In social psychology, this effect is known as “the boomerang effect,” or ____.
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In informal surveys, people always overestimate the number…
In informal surveys, people always overestimate the number of lesbians who have AIDS. Lesbians actually have extremely low rates of AIDS, but people tend to associate lesbians with gay men (who have relatively high rates). Thus, people tend to think that they see a lesbian-AIDS relationship when in fact there is no such relationship. This is a good example of the ____.
Which is a dominant condition?
Which is a dominant condition?
Bovine Heart What is another common predilection site for…
Bovine Heart What is another common predilection site for this disease?
When an image passes through two sets of lenses, this means…
When an image passes through two sets of lenses, this means that the microscope:
Suppose that Walter is happily married to Sara. If he is lik…
Suppose that Walter is happily married to Sara. If he is like most happily married heterosexual men, then, when asked to rate the attractiveness of various other women, he is most likely to devalue (rate as less attractive than they really are) ____.
In the typical long-term, romantic relationship, a couple wi…
In the typical long-term, romantic relationship, a couple will experience passionate love for ____.
The recessive allele is masked in the phenotype of a heteroz…
The recessive allele is masked in the phenotype of a heterozygous individual.
Even though Amanda just met Diego two minutes ago, she has a…
Even though Amanda just met Diego two minutes ago, she has a good feeling about him right off the bat. According to the ____ hypothesis, it is therefore likely that Amanda will also decide within minutes that Diego is a good person.
When people are making choices between two options that dif…
When people are making choices between two options that differ both qualitatively and quantitatively, they tend to focus on ____.