How Did Crum and Langer Formally Report the Findings of Their

question 243

Multiple Choice

How did Crum and Langer formally report the findings of their hotel experiment about the effect of perceiving work as exercise?

• A) They appeared on the television news program 60 Minutes.
• B) They held a news conference at the Housekeeping Association of America's annual convention.
• C) They were interviewed, and their study was described in the "Science" section of The New York Times.
• D) They wrote up the study, and it was published in Psychological Science.

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Definitions:

Self-verification

The tendency for individuals to seek confirmation of their self-concept, whether positive or negative, from the external environment.

Symbolic Self-completion

A theory that individuals strive to achieve and maintain self-definitions, and when they feel incomplete in a certain role, they seek symbols that represent success in that area.

Social Comparison

The process of evaluating oneself by comparison with others, often in terms of abilities, achievements, and social status.

Sociometer Model

The idea that a basic function of self-esteem is to indicate to the individual how much he or she is accepted by other people.