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vHAUNG6011 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

When a tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, many people from all over the United States donated money and time to help the individuals in need due to that disaster. This tendency to help even total strangers illustrates the textbook's classification of humans as ____.

a. social animals
b. unconditionally generous
c. cultural animals
d. conflict-driven animals

Question 2

In general, people do not like to suffer, work hard, or make sacrifices. If and when they do these things, they want to feel that their efforts were worthwhile. Thus, even when people's efforts do not actually seem to have paid off, people will nonetheless try to convince themselves that they suffered for a good reason. This tendency is known as ____.

a. effort justification
b. attitude polarization
c. a self-fulfilling prophecy
d. the false consensus effect