Professor Axelrod Is Interested in the Effects of Physical Attractiveness

question 138

Multiple Choice

Professor Axelrod is interested in the effects of physical attractiveness on how others interpret the appearance and behaviours of attractive versus unattractive people.Professor Axelrod is most likely to be interested in

• A)personality theory.
• B)attribution theory.
• C)lie detection.
• D)social encoding.
• E)social perception.

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