Author Question: Ambady and colleagues were able to conclude that the thin-sliced impressions formed by their ... (Read 65 times)

rlane42 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Ambady and colleagues were able to conclude that the thin-sliced impressions formed by their participants were based on meaningful information because

a. their ratings based on 30-second clips were little different than their ratings based on 6-second clips.
b. their ratings of the silent video clips corresponded strongly with the ratings that the instructors received from their actual students at the end of the semester.
c. ratings were similar for silent video clips and for the same video clips when shown with audio.
d. while the thin-sliced video clips were brief, it took participants a relatively long amount of time to come up with ratings of the instructors they viewed.

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding the Carney et al. (2010) power-posing research is true?

a. Standing in a closed posture with one's arms wrapped around one's own torso tends to be a high-power pose.
b. While participants who previously had posed in a high-power posture exhibited evidence of increased testosterone, their self-report responses indicated that they did not feel more powerful after the manipulation.
c. Participants who posed in a high-power posture adopted riskier strategies on a subsequent gambling task.
d. Participants were less willing to adopt low-power poses compared to high-power poses.