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armygirl · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Anson asks an industrial/organizational psychologist for advice concerning whether he should ask his employees to complete self-evaluations. Which of the following is the psychologist least likely to indicate?

a. Self-evaluations tend to be more positive than supervisor evaluations.
b. Self-evaluations tend to be less predictive of job performance than supervisor evaluations.
c. Individuals who have more power in the company will give themselves more positive evaluations than thosewho have less power.
d. Female employees will give more positive evaluations of themselves than will male employees.

Question 2

Abby compliments Sharon on her new outfit, despite thinking it is not flattering at all. According to the new look at dissonance theory,

a. Abby must feel physiological arousal after her lie in order to feel cognitive dissonance.
b. Abby will feel dissonance because she felt her only choice was to flatter Sharon when Sharon asked her,How do I look?
c. Abby will not feel dissonance because Sharon's outfit is not personally important to Abby.
d. Abby will come to believe that Sharon's outfit is flattering in the same way that an observer might inferAbby's attitude from her behavior.