Rueben Is Highly Psychopathic and Constantly Getting into Physical Altercations

question 37

Multiple Choice

Rueben is highly psychopathic and constantly getting into physical altercations with other people he feels are acting aggressively towards him. During an assessment, he tells the evaluator that "it is a dog eat dog world" and "only the strong survive." Which theory best explains Rueben's behaviour and statements?

• A) Festinger's cognitive dissonance
• B) Hostile attribution bias
• C) Hare's hypoemotionality model
• D) Baumeister's threatened egotism model
• E) Lykken's fearlessness model

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Definitions:

µ

The population mean, representing the average value of a given population.

α

Denotes the level of significance in hypothesis testing, representing the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that assumes no statistical significance in a set of given observations, aiming to be either proven or disproven.

µ

The symbol that denotes the average value of a population in statistical analysis.