After September 11, 2001, Frederickson and colleagues (2003) contacted students who had previously taken part in a study on stress and coping. She found that the most resilient of the students were the ones who felt
a. interest in unfolding world events.
b. scorn for the attackers of September 11th.
c. fearful.
d. angry.
Question 2
Stan is a new student in his sixth-grade class. The other students exert normative pressure on him to conform to their opinion on some issue. According to social impact theory, Stan will be more likely to resist this influence if
a. there are 20 rather than 11 students in the class.
b. he perceives the other students as having high status.
c. there are three other new students in the class who are receiving the same pressures.
d. he comes from a culture that values a collectivist orientation.
The experiment of Plaxton and his colleagues demonstrated that plants can alter their metabolism in
College Students, By Sex and Race-Ethnicity
September 11, 2001.
Equinoxes: March 21 and September 21
Students and Money
Students pointing at a computer screen