In Stanley Schachter's (1959) classic studies on affiliation, what percentage of women expecting to receive painful shocks preferred to wait with others?

Correct answer: 63 percent

Explanation

This question tests recall of the specific quantitative results from Schachter's (1959) experiments on anxiety and social comparison, as detailed in Section 4.3.

Other questions

Question 1

According to research by Gallup (1970) on chimpanzees, what action indicated that the animals understood they were looking at themselves in a mirror?

Question 2

At approximately what age do human infants typically begin to recognize themselves in a mirror, similar to the way chimpanzees do?

Question 3

What is the term for the knowledge representation that contains our beliefs about our personality traits, physical characteristics, abilities, values, goals, and roles?

Question 4

What is meant by the term 'self-complexity'?

Question 5

According to research on self-complexity, what is a primary benefit of having a more complex self-concept?

Question 6

What did the classic study by Rogers, Kuiper, and Kirker (1977) on memory for adjectives demonstrate?

Question 7

What is the loss of self-awareness and individual accountability in groups called?

Question 8

In the Halloween field experiment by Beaman et al. (1979), what was the percentage of children who took more than one piece of candy when a large mirror was placed behind the candy bowl?

Question 9

What is the difference between private and public self-consciousness?

Question 10

The tendency for people to overestimate the extent to which others are paying attention to them is known as what?

Question 11

In the study on the 'illusion of transparency' by Gilovich, Savitsky, and Medvec (1998), what did liars overestimate?

Question 12

What is self-esteem?

Question 13

On the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a common self-report measure, what do higher numbers on the 1 to 4 scale indicate?

Question 14

The concept that people prefer things associated with their own names, such as their own initials, is called what?

Question 15

In the study by Sanitioso, Kunda, and Fong (1990), what type of memories did students tend to list first after learning that a certain personality trait (introversion or extroversion) was linked to success?

Question 16

The tendency to present a positive self-image to others with the goal of increasing our social status is known as what?

Question 17

According to Jones and Pittman (1982), which self-presentation strategy aims to create fear by showing that you can be aggressive?

Question 18

What personality trait is characterized by overly high self-esteem, self-admiration, and self-centeredness?

Question 19

Based on the review by Baumeister and colleagues (2003), what is the causal relationship between high self-esteem and positive life outcomes like academic achievement?

Question 20

What is the term for the process of learning about our abilities, skills, and social status by comparing ourselves with others?

Question 22

When we attempt to create a positive image of ourselves through favorable comparisons with others who are worse off than we are, what is this process called?

Question 23

What is social identity?

Question 24

The process of enhancing our self-esteem by 'basking in the reflected glory' of our ingroups or other people we know is called what?

Question 25

In the study by Kim and Markus (1999), participants from which cultural background were more likely to choose a pen with a more common color, reflecting a preference for conformity?

Question 26

What is the average score for college students on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, which is rated on a 1 to 4 scale?

Question 27

Which brain region is primarily identified in neuroimaging studies as being important for processing and storing information about the self?

Question 28

How do men and women typically differ in their self-presentation strategies, according to the text?

Question 29

What is a 'low self-monitor' likely to do in a social situation?

Question 30

According to the text, when does BIRGing (basking in reflected glory) fail to boost self-esteem and instead lead to upward social comparison?

Question 31

Which of the following self-descriptions is more typical of a person from an East Asian, collectivistic culture compared to a person from a Western, individualistic culture?

Question 32

What is the primary reason that negative information about a person tends to have a greater impact on our impressions than positive information?

Question 33

What is a key finding regarding the self-esteem of lottery winners and paralyzed accident victims, as studied by Brickman, Coates, and Janoff-Bulman (1978)?

Question 34

Which of the following is a potential negative consequence of having an overly high and unrealistic self-esteem, also known as narcissism?

Question 35

The desire to have others see us as we see ourselves, even if our self-views are negative, is a motivation known as:

Question 36

What is social status as defined in the chapter?

Question 37

What does the Twenty Statements Test, which asks a person to complete the statement 'I am...' twenty times, reveal?

Question 38

In the context of the self-concept, what is a 'self-schema'?

Question 39

What does research on cultural differences in self-consciousness, such as the study by Heine et al. (2008), suggest about the effect of a mirror on people from East Asian cultures?

Question 40

The feeling self, or self-esteem, is in part a trait that is stable over time. What else is it?

Question 41

According to the Sanitioso, Kunda, and Fong (1990) study, what percentage of students who learned that extroversion was related to success listed an extroverted memory first?

Question 42

Which of the five self-presentation strategies described by Jones and Pittman (1982) involves creating pity by indicating helplessness?

Question 43

What is the relationship between self-esteem, social status, and self-presentation?

Question 44

In Schachter's (1959) follow-up studies, what kind of company did anxious participants prefer?

Question 45

When are upward social comparisons most useful, despite potentially lowering our self-esteem?

Question 46

According to research by Todd Heatherton and Kathleen Vohs (2000), how did people with extremely high self-esteem react when forced to fail on a task in front of a partner?

Question 47

What are the three categories of self-concept responses most commonly revealed by the Twenty Statements Test?

Question 48

How much of our well-being is estimated to be accounted for by our wealth, health, and life circumstances combined?

Question 49

In the context of self-awareness, what is 'publicly induced self-awareness' also known as?

Question 50

What did the research by Twenge, Campbell, and Foster (2003) on the impact of having children on well-being find?