Consider the following two American adages, which seem to contradict one another: Birds of a feather flock together and opposites attract. The authors of the textbook would probably say that ____.
a. this contradiction is an anomaly since Americans tend to be extremely single-minded in their common sense views about social psychology
b. most people in the U.S. probably believe one of these adages to be truebut not bothsince most people have very clear personal theories about social psychology
c. the contradiction is not surprising at all, since common sense theories are often poorly defined, i.e., most people would probably say that both of these things are true (if you asked them at different times)
d. most people would not see the contradiction if it were pointed out to them, since the average person is not a strong logical thinker
Question 2
Research on the link between happiness and health demonstrates that ____.
a. there is actually a weak link here, and it is not clear what causes what
b. there is actually a weak link here, though it appears that health drives happiness (rather than happiness driving health)
c. there is a strong link here, although it is not clear what causes what
d. there is a strong link here, and it appears that health drives happiness (rather than happiness driving health)
Spain’s North American Frontier, c. 1750
Faith Ringgold, God Bless America, No. 13 from the series American People.
Russel Wright, American Modern dinnerware.
Out of Many: A History of the American People