Suppose that a researcher decided to study everyday altruism towards men versus towards women by leaving (fake) fully addressed college applications in airport lobbies (identical except with male versus female applicant names), and then tracking the number of people who send in the application. What kind of study of this?
a. A laboratory study
b. A field experiment
c. A correlational study
d. A quasi-experiment
Question 2
When people are asked to predict how they would feel if a certain event occurred, they are ____ at predicting which emotion they would feel. Research additionally shows that people are ____ at predicting how long they would be emotionally affected.
a. usually inaccurate; usually inaccurate
b. usually inaccurate nevertheless fairly accurate
c. fairly accurate; also fairly accurate
d. fairly accurate; nevertheless rather inaccurate
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