A Large-Scale Survey Showed That Men Are Less Disturbed by a Girlfriend's

question 46

Multiple Choice

A large-scale survey showed that men are less disturbed by a girlfriend's homosexual encounter than a heterosexual encounter, while women are more disturbed by their boyfriends' homosexual encounters. A psychologist would most likely describe these results as evidence that

• A) jealousy has an evolutionary component.
• B) women internalize stereotypes more deeply than men.
• C) people are irrational and cannot trust their partners.
• D) young people have different attitudes about sex than older people.
• E) women are more heteroflexible than men.

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Occipital Lobe

The rearmost area of each cerebral hemisphere; includes tissue crucial for processing visual information.

Simple Reaction Time

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Choice Reaction Time

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Lexical Access Time

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