Ingrid Has Had a Few Interactions with Chinese Students at Her

question 7

Multiple Choice

Ingrid has had a few interactions with Chinese students at her college and thinks that they are "hard to read" because they do not use facial expressions "clearly" as compared to Americans she interacts with. Such experiences illustrate __________.

• A) women's inability to decode emotions
• B) women's inability to encode emotions
• C) differences in display rules
• D) the use of emblems

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Normal Curve

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.

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