Research on Gender and Helping Indicates That ____

question 109

Multiple Choice

Research on gender and helping indicates that ____

• A) regardless of whether helpers are male or female, females are more likely to receive help than males
• B) when helpers are male, females are more likely to receive help than males; when helpers are female, females and males are equally likely to receive help
• C) when helpers are male, females are more likely to receive help than males; when helpers are female, males are more likely to receive help
• D) when helpers are male, females and males are equally likely to receive help; when helpers are female, females are more likely to receive help than males

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Definitions:

Society

A community of people living in a more or less ordered community, often characterized by its laws, customs, and organizations.

Invisible Hand

A metaphor introduced by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace, where individual self-interests unintentionally benefit society.

Adam Smith

An 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher, best known for his theories on capitalism and the invisible hand of the market.

Free Market

A system of voluntary exchange in which every agent is free to produce, buy, and sell “as the market will bear,” without interference or standards set by any outside authority.