Author Question: Vince buys tickets to a concert that his girlfriend, Jennifer, wants to see. The concert is in three ... (Read 205 times)

CQXA · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Vince buys tickets to a concert that his girlfriend, Jennifer, wants to see. The concert is in three months, but two weeks before the show, the couple split up. Vince decides to go to the concert anyway even though he doesn't really like the band. I paid the money, so I might as well go, he says. Vince's decision demonstrates the ____ principle.

a. base rate
b. endowment
c. escalation
d. sunk cost

Question 2

The experience of being ostracized has been found to be

a. fleeting and relatively harmless.
b. more disturbing for women than for men.
c. similar in brain area activation to the experience of physical pain.
d. likely to lead to gun use and other forms of violence.