The phenomenon of groupthink is most likely to occur when a group is under stress, highly ________, and when the leader is very ________.

Burger’s (2009) replication of Milgram’s studies on obedience to authority suggests that compared with people in the 1970s, people in 2006 were ________ likely to obey authority.

Imagine that before a test, the professor told Jake that if he is caught cheating, he will be expelled. Imagine that the professor told Amanda that, if caught cheating, her only punishment will be to write a short paper about why cheating is wrong. If both students don’t cheat, what would dissonance theory predict?

________ theory would be most likely to mention such factors as social approval and increased self-worth as motivations for prosocial behavior.

once participants in Milgram’s studies delivered the first shock to the learner, this created internal pressure to obey. This dissonance made it more difficult later for participants to

Donald didn’t attend carefully to the substance of the persuasive communication, but instead paid attention to some irrelevant cues. He’s using the ________ route to persuasion.

In order for Burger (2009) to conduct a study replicating Milgram’s work on obedience, he had to modify Milgram’s procedures. Which of the following is one of the modifications he made?

When researchers suggest that people tend to prefer an “average” face as being most physically attractive, they mean that people prefer

There is a(n) ________ correlation between the length of time a person has lived in the same place and the likelihood that he or she will help in the community.

Researchers used computer graphics to generate composite faces that reflected the exact mathematical average of the facial features of a large number of individual photographs. They then asked participants to rate the attractiveness of the composite photograph and the individual photographs that were combined to make up the composite. These researchers found that