The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception.
They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. Which group of participants spent more time looking at people in the periphery?
a. people from a Western culture
b. people from an Eastern culture
c. women more so than men
d. people from New World cultures
Question 2
The tendency to think that other people are more susceptible to attributional biases in their thinking than we are is a(n)
a. defensive attribution.
b. availability heuristic.
c. bias blind spot.
d. schema.
McCourt and colleagues engineer drought tolerance into crops.
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The main avenue to the upward social mobility reviewed in the text has been higher education.
High rates of rural poverty have been a part of the United States from its origin to the present. ...
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