A Researcher Finds That People Who Work in a Fish

question 97

Multiple Choice

A researcher finds that people who work in a fish processing plant, doing work that most people find extremely unpleasant, still have a positive mood about 60 percent of the time. Such a finding could most likely be explained by which of the following?

• A) the fundamental attribution error
• B) self-serving bias
• C) the altered enhancement effect
• D) positivity offset
• E) self-elation

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Definitions:

Horizontal Labor Supply Curve

A graphical representation suggesting that a worker's willingness to work does not change regardless of wage increases over a certain range.

Monopolist

A single seller in a market who has significant control over the price and supply of a product or service.

Horizontal Labor Supply Curve

Suggests that the supply of labor remains constant regardless of changes in wage rates.

Returns To Scale

The rate at which output increases as inputs are increased proportionately in the production process, indicating economies or diseconomies of scale.