Author Question: A woman's car is stuck in the snow and she needs a push to get free. ________ is more likely to stop ... (Read 35 times)

APUS57 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A woman's car is stuck in the snow and she needs a push to get free. ________ is more likely to stop to help her out because ________.

a. A man; the situation calls for sustained helping
b. A woman; the situation calls for sustained helping
c. A man; the situation calls for an act of chivalry
d. A woman; women in general are more altruistic than men

Question 2

Researchers tested the hypothesis that rates of helping strangers would be higher in countries that valued simpata. They staged helping incidents in twenty-three large cities and observed whether or not people helped. These researchers found

a. helping was dramatically higher in those countries that valued simpata.
b. helping tended to be higher in those countries that valued simpata, but was also high in some countries where this was not a value.
c. no difference in this study, because the helping examined was of strangers rather than of in-group members.
d. no differences in this study, because they examined helping in an urban rather than in a rural setting.