Susan Andersen and Sandra Bem (1981)conducted a Variation of the Getting-Acquainted

question 93

Multiple Choice

Susan Andersen and Sandra Bem (1981) conducted a variation of the getting-acquainted telephone study by Mark Snyder,Elizabeth Decker Tanke,and Ellen Berscheid (1977) .Andersen and Bem provided attractive and unattractive photos of men to women,who interacted with men at the other end of a telephone.When the women thought that the men with whom they were speaking with were the men in the photos,

• A)the self-fulfilling prophecy did not occur because the men controlled the conversations.
• B)the female participants spoke more kindly to the unattractive male photos than they did to the attractive photos.
• C)the men on the other end did not change their behaviours in response to the women's differential treatment.
• D)the female participants did not fall prey to the self-fulfilling prophecy as did men in previous studies.
• E)results were similar to studies in which men were provided the photos.

Understand different decision-making models and their characteristics.

Identify the impacts of psychological phenomena on managerial decision-making.

Describe the concept of benchmarking and its importance in management.

Recognize the complexity of decision-making models in the context of governmental and organizational structures.

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