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elizabeth18

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A social dilemma is defined as a conflict in which the most beneficial action for an individual will ________ if ________.
 
  a. have harmful effects on everyone; chosen by a few
  b. have harmful effects on everyone; chosen by most people
  c. benefit the person substantially; he or she betrays moral standards
  d. actually harm that individual; he or she is the only one to chose it

Question 2

The text described a recent situation in which novelist Stephen King began publishing a novel called The Plant in installments over the Internet, asking readers to pay 1 per installment.
 
  He indicated that if at least 75 percent of the people who downloaded the novel paid the fee, he would keep writing and posting new installments, but if fewer than 75 percent paid the fee, he would stop writing and people would never get the rest of the novel. King posed a ________ dilemma for his readers.
  a. transactional
  b. polarization
  c. social
  d. deindividuation



durant1234

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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