A 1997 U.S. News and World Report poll asked 1,000 Americans whether they thought various people were likely to go to heaven.  Coming in above Mother Teresa, the respondents rated _______________ as most likely to go to heaven.

Miller (1976) manipulated self-esteem involvement and false feedback regarding success or failure on a phony social perceptiveness test.  The study’s results provide a good laboratory example of 

If you believe your fate is determined by _____, you probably have an _____ locus of control.

As opposed to unrealistic optimism, how might defensive pessimism affect students’ preparation for exams? Defensive pessimism might increase

The extent to which people perceive their lives as internally controllable by their own efforts and actions or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces constitutes their

The experience of repeated uncontrollable bad events contributes to

In an experimental study of the effects of fear on the desire to affiliate, one group of subjects is led to believe that they may experience painful shocks in the study, whereas the other group is not led to believe that they will receive shocks. Fear would be the _________ variable.

Jorge cheats on his income taxes and consoles himself with the thought that everyone else probably cheats a little, too. This rationalization represents

All the remains of the cremated human body recovered after the completion of the cremation process are properly termed?

The building that houses the cremation machine is called the