Regarding Judgments About Fairness, We Tend, as a Group, to Feel

question 13

Multiple Choice

Regarding judgments about fairness, we tend, as a group, to feel some level of distress when not getting as much as we think we deserve. Conversely, individuals seldom have any sense of concern when getting more than is deserved. Interestingly though, males and females differ in their applications of principles of fairness. According to the text, when asked to work as long as they think is fair for a set amount of money, women worked _____ than their male counterparts. Women also tend to _____ when dividing the money between themselves and a co-worker.

• A) 20-25% longer; give themselves more
• B) 20-25% less; give themselves less
• C) 20-25% longer; give everybody an equal amount
• D) 20-25% less; give themselves more

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Definitions:

Child Rearing

The process of supporting and promoting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.

Uninvolved Pattern

A parenting or relationship style characterized by a lack of responsiveness and emotional warmth towards others.

Strange Situation

A standardized procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment relationships between a caregiver and child.

Ainsworth

An American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work in the development of attachment theory, famously through the "Strange Situation" assessment, which identifies patterns of attachment in young children.