Research on the Relationship Between Personality Traits and Helping Behavior

question 1

Multiple Choice

Research on the relationship between personality traits and helping behavior revealed that

• A)personality traits have little to no influence on helping.
• B)the person and the situation interact to predict helping.
• C)assertiveness strongly predicts helping across a variety of situations.
• D)gender is the only characteristic that predicts helping better than situational factors.

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