Exam 13: Social Psychology-Part C

Attractive people tend to have better social skills than do less attractive people.

People usually struggle for years with learning social norms when they move to another country.

Male faces are considered more attractive when they have immature features.

Companionate love starts slowly,grows steadily,and involves concern for your partner's well-being.

We grow to like things that we see often.

Men commit approximately 90% of the murders in the United States.

A soft drink company is more likely to use systematic persuasion than is a real-estate company.

Solomon Asch demonstrated that normative influence can cause people to misperceive the length of lines.

The tendency to attribute our own behavior to unwavering dispositions and others' behavior to situational whims is illustrative of the actor-observer effect.

Acts of aggression are more likely to occur on very hot days.

Conformity involves following the instructions of an authority figure.

Mothers of attractive children are more affectionate with their children than are mothers of unattractive children.

If your parents have been married for a long time,it is likely that they share a passionate love.

Male bodies are considered most attractive if they approximate inverted triangles.

Our society is more aggressive now than it was 100 years ago.

Participants obeyed Milgram's order to shock another person because of the implicit threat of punishment.

As relationships grow older,people are more likely to settle for less than favorable cost-benefit ratios.

By ignoring stereotypes and treating each person as an individual,we can almost always judge a person accurately.

Women prefer older men and men prefer younger women across a wide variety of human cultures.

We are prone to falling prey to the foot-in-the-door sales technique because buying something reduces our cognitive dissonance.