After Starting Your Job, Your Manager Sends You a Friend

question 55

Multiple Choice

After starting your job, your manager sends you a friend request on Facebook. You accept but find that your manager posts the most childish jokes on his page. When he asks you in the morning if you saw his post last night, you say, "Yes, and I thought it was hilarious. I particularly liked the joke about the three men entering the bar." You are using __________ to help your manager like you.

• A) implementation
• B) social tuning
• C) ingratiation
• D) self-handicapping

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Definitions:

Confirmation Biases

A natural tendency to look for, make sense of, value, and keep in mind details that confirm one's established beliefs or speculations.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional traits when explaining others' behaviors.

Actor-Observer Bias

A tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing others' actions to their internal characteristics.

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship actually exists.