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Schwartz and his colleagues examined the relationship between decision-making style and measures of depression. Their results showed that people with a maximizing decision-making style
 
  a. tended to be less depressed, probably because they were pleased with their high-quality decisions.
  b. tended to be less depressed, probably because they enjoyed the process of decision making.
  c. tended to be more depressed, probably because they experience regret that the items they did not select might be better.
  d. tended to be more depressed, probably because they spent so much time on the process of decision making.

Question 2

The last part of Chapter 12 noted that researchers such as Kahneman and Tversky are pessimistic about our decision-making skills, whereas researchers such as Gigerenzer are more optimistic. The optimists emphasize that
 
  a. the pessimists focused too much on real-life examples; in the laboratory, people are actually quite accurate.
  b. the major decision-making heuristics are actually highly accurate, and they almost always lead us to correct decisions, contrary to the theories advanced by the pessimists.
  c. the pessimists underestimate our decision-making accuracy because of factors such as choosing questions that contradict people's schemas.
  d. the pessimists have typically sampled groups of people living in the community; in contrast, college students make statistically appropriate decisions.



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