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james

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Research has found that one of the strongest, most consistent psychological differences between males and females is with respect to ____.
 
  a. identification of threatening situations
  b. physiological responses to stress
  c. production of cortisol in response to stress
  d. seeking social support

Question 2

Research suggests that most people have high self-esteem and distorted, overly positive views about themselves. How are people able to consistently fool themselves? Discuss at least three different strategies or factors that enable people to maintain these views.
 
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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

a . People are able to fool themselves by engaging in
i. the self-serving bias, the tendency to make more internal attributions (than warranted) for positive events, and more external attributions (than warranted) for external events.
ii. self-handicapping, the tendency to intentionally place oneself at a disadvantage when one anticipates failure (such that failures can be attributed to the disadvantages, and successes can be perceived as all the more impressive).
iii. a tendency to be more critical of negative feedback (bearing upon the self) than positive feedback (bearing upon the self).
iv. a tendency to attend to and remember positive feedback (bearing upon the self) more than negative feedback (bearing upon the self).
v. a tendency to compare oneself to others who are slightly worse than oneself.
vi. a tendency to see one's negative traits as relatively common and one's positive traits as relatively rare.
vii. a tendency to define traits in ways that reflect well upon the self.



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