Author Question: Emma and Clark have some tough relationship issues to sort out. Based on the research by Misra and ... (Read 78 times)

sabina · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Emma and Clark have some tough relationship issues to sort out. Based on the research by Misra and colleagues (2014), if they want to feel connected to one another and express the necessary amount of empathy during their discussion, what should they do?

a. Have the talk outside where the environment is less restrictive.
b. Put their chairs very close to one another to increase their propinquity.
c. Have the discussion while babysitting a neighbor's children, so their reproductive fitness goals are activated.
d. Put their mobile devices away.

Question 2

Strangers were brought into a research lab and were instructed to discuss a personally meaningful topic in research conducted by Pryzbylski and Weinstein (2013).

Most of the time, doing that activity fosters a sense of closeness among strangers who are meeting for the first time. In this research, that closeness did not occur. Why not?
a. There was no physical contact between the strangers.
b. There was a mobile device on the table between the strangers.
c. One of the strangers had to leave the discussion abruptly.
d. The researchers didn't permit the strangers to speak freely.