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Which of the following statements is true of research on the effect of culture in shaping personality?
 
  a. European Americans displayed a far greater number of negative emotions than did the Asian Americans.
  b. Recent Chinese immigrants to Canada scored significantly higher in extraversion than those who have been living for past ten or more years.
  c. Brain wave activity in response to a particular visual stimulus has been found to be the same among people from all cultures.
  d. In general, people from Western cultures are more optimistic than people from Eastern cultures.

Question 2

The research conducted by Barrett, Lane, Sechrest, and Schwartz (2000) suggests that:
 
  a. men are more concerned with what people think of them than women do.
  b. women exhibit greater emotional complexity than men.
  c. women are more resistant to emotional disorders than men.
  d. men are more likely to suffer from anxiety than women.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Western people in general, and Americans, in particular, also exhibit greater optimism and view themselves and their future more positively. They even consider their sports teams, cities, and friends to be superior, when compared to those of Asian cultures (Endo, Heine, & Lehman, 2000).

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: One large-scale study of the intensity of emotional awareness and expression compared male and female college undergraduates at two American universities and male and female students at medical schools in the United States and in Germany. The results showed that women from both countries displayed greater emotional complexity and intensity than did men (Barrett, Lane, Sechrest, & Schwartz, 2000).



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