Author Question: Megan told her mother that she has decided to meet Jim, whom she met online. Megan's mother is ... (Read 95 times)

NguyenJ · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Megan told her mother that she has decided to meet Jim, whom she met online. Megan's mother is likely to

a. warn her that she should take time to get to know Jim since comprehensive self-descriptions online force people to construct profiles that are more easily determined over time in a face-to-face relationship.
b. provide empirical evidence that online beginnings are rarely stable over time.
c. be excited for Megan since Jim's online profile indicates he earns a high salary and is above average in attractiveness.
d. tell Megan that she has read research that shows people who feel anonymous will decrease their likelihood of deception when constructing a virtual identity.

Question 2

Researchers found that romantic relationships that begin on the Internet

a. never last.
b. are superficial and tend to fade if the people actually meet.
c. are just as stable over two years as traditional relationships.
d. are more successful than relationships that begin face-to-face.