Exam 8: Liking, Loving, and Interpersonal Sensitivity

According to research on dating, people:

You are at a party and are engaged in a discussion with someone you just met. The topic is capital punishment, an issue you feel very strongly about. Based on your discussion, your chances of liking this person will be greatest if he or she:

Compared to passionate love, companionate love tends to:

Dion and her colleagues showed subjects pictures of attractive, average, and unattractive people. The results of her study indicated that:

According to Clark and Mills, which type of relationship is marked by a lack of "scorekeeping," and healthy giving and receiving by both partners?

Which of the following subject variables is most strongly related to whether the fear communication was persuasive?

Some experiments indicate that physiological symptoms of rejection are associated with physiological responses and brain activity to pain. According to The Social Animal, which of the following has been identified as occurring for both physical and mental pain?

In a study by Zhong and Leonardelli, participants were asked to recall a personal experience of social inclusion or social exclusion. Then they were asked to estimate the temperature in the room. People who recalled being rejected felt the room was:

In an experiment by Coan et al. on social support, married women were placed in an fMRI while they anticipated receiving electric shocks. When a stranger held their hand while they waited for the shocks, the anticipatory neural activity for pain:

Suppose you are observing a highly popular and well-respected politician and a college student eat lunch. Both proceed to spill gravy on their neckties. Generalizing from research cited in Aronson, your liking of the politician will most likely ________ and your liking of the college student will ________.

Finkel and Eastwick had college students participate in a speed-dating experiment. At the end of the evening, the participants indicated who they would like to see again. In these real face-to-face interactions, women appeared to care, just as much as men, about physical attractiveness because:

In some experiments on the pain of being rejected, participants played a ball-tossing game while their brains were being scanned in an fMRI. Those excluded during the game showed increased activity in the ___________ areas of the brain involved in the experience of pain.

In some experiments on the pain of being rejected, participants played a ball-tossing game while their brains were being scanned in an fMRI. Those excluded during the game showed increased activity in areas of the brain involved in the experience of pain. However, when they were given __________, these regions did not show heightened activity.

Which of the following variables was not investigated in the Dabbs and Leventhal experiment on tetanus inoculation?

In a study by Walster and her associates, in which students were randomly matched for a computer date after taking a battery of psychological tests, it was found that:

In their study of the influence of physical attractiveness on court decisions, Downs and Lyons found that:

"I think you are an extremely attractive person." From which of the following sources would this statement probably have the greatest positive effect on your self-concept?

In a study by Zhong and Leonardelli, participants were either included in a ball-toss game or excluded after a few initial tosses. Later, when rating the desirability of foods/beverages, those excluded during the ball-tossing game:

In communicating effectively with another person, giving that person immediate feedback regarding your own feelings is useful:

Walster and her colleagues randomly matched incoming students to determine what they looked for in a potential blind date. Which of the following characteristics best determined whether or not subjects liked each other?