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Professor Shackleford is elated because she has just learned that her paper has been accepted for publication. When a student passes her in the hallway and tells her that he missed the latest exam in order to stay home with his depressed cat, her good mood renders her likely to
 
  a. be even more skeptical than usual about such an unlikely excuse.
  b. be less skeptical than usual about the excuse.
  c. overlook the student's cognitive dissonance.
  d. fall victim to the sleeper effect.

Question 2

Louie runs a clinic that helps individuals to quit smoking, and he would like to use fear to motivate his clients. Which strategy would be most effective?
 
  a. First scare clients by showing them gory lung-cancer operations. Then outline the specific steps they couldfollow to stop smoking.
 b. First scare clients by showing them gory lung-cancer operations. Then allow them to come up with their ownways of quitting smoking so that they are more committed.
 c. Present statistics concerning the health hazards of smoking, but nothing too scary. Then allow the clients tocome up with their own ways of quitting smoking so that they are more committed.
 d. Present statistics concerning the health hazards of smoking, but nothing too scary. Then outline the specificsteps they could follow to stop smoking.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a



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