People who receive unwelcome, correcting information not only resist that challenge to their views, they come to hold their original, erroneous position even more strongly. This is known as ________
a. backfire effect
b. affective intelligence
c. motivated reasoning
d. sleeper effect
a
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1.Married people tend to report being happier and more satisfied with their lives than single people do. 2.Marital satisfaction increases after parenthood. 3.In general, marital relationships are less stable than cohabitating relationships. 4.General equity (or inequity) represents an overall assessment of balance between two people’s benefits and contributions. 5.A relationship can be unbalanced in terms of specific equity, but balanced overall.
“I have to tell you about a funny thing that happened the other day” would most likely be said during the _____ step of the process of conversation
A) business B) feedforward C) feedback D) closing
Do you agree or disagree with the uncertainty reduction theory's assumption that as we increase our desire to be in a relationship with others, we utilize tactics to decrease uncertainty? Defend your answer
What will be an ideal response?
When analyzing the four factors of the rhetorical situation, ethos is an important consideration related
to the A) speaker. B) audience. C) occasion. D) speech. E) Greeks.