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magmichele12

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Your friend claims to be an animal lover but constantly wears fur and leather. How can you use the techniques designed by Aronson and his students (1992) to change your friend's behavior?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Define polyandry and polygyny. Under what circumstances does each type of arrangement make sense?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: Student can describe any technique but must include the basics of inducing hypocrisy and the resulting cognitive dissonance.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Polyandry: one woman weds more than one husband. This arrangement makes sense in places like the harsh conditions in the highlands of Tibet, where it is difficult for a man and a woman to survive without the help of others. Here, a woman may marry several brothers who can pool their resources and thereby produce more surviving offspring then a monogamous relationship would.
Polygyny: one man weds more than one wife. This arrangement is more likely when there is a steep social hierarchy, a generally rich environment so one family can accumulate wealth, and occasional famines, so the poor face some danger of starvation. Under these conditions, a woman who joins a large wealthy family obtains greater benefits than she likely would in a monogamous relationship, even if it means sharing the husband with other women.



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