Author Question: A 2001 study of 1,306 adult men from the Boston area found that optimism was a. positively ... (Read 28 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A 2001 study of 1,306 adult men from the Boston area found that optimism was

a. positively correlated with emotion-focused coping.
b. positively correlated with problem-focused coping.
c. negatively correlated with coronary heart disease 10 years later.
d. negatively correlated with self-serving appraisal styles.

Question 2

The Milgram study demonstrated

a. the specific personality traits that predict destructive obedience to authority.
b. that people will typically harm another individual with little to no social pressure to do so.
c. obedience to authority is most destructive when the authority figure is particularly harsh and demanding.
d. the potential for situational influences to lead ordinary people to commit extraordinarily destructive acts.