Author Question: In Ainsworth and Mariner's (2014) study, male participants playing a reaction-time computer game ... (Read 188 times)

karen · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

In Ainsworth and Mariner's (2014) study, male participants playing a reaction-time computer game were most likely to blast their opponent with an aversive noise in their headphones if

a. the participant was primed by viewing pictures of very attractive women and his opponent was regarded asbeing socially dominant.
b. the participant was primed by viewing pictures of very attractive women and his opponent was regarded asbeing of average social dominance.
c. the participant was primed by viewing pictures of less attractive women and his opponent was regarded asbeing socially dominant.
d. the participant was primed by viewing pictures of less attractive women and his opponent was regarded asbeing of average social dominance.

Question 2

Believing that poor people are happier than others, or that obese people are more sociable, helps to satisfy

a. belief perseverance.
b. belief in a just world.
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the false-consensus effect.