Regarding physical attractiveness, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Beauty is a factor mainly in the initial acquaintance with more meaningful qualities gaining in importance later.
b. Beautiful people are generally rated as less intelligent and less likable than average due to other people's jealousy.
c. Physical beauty is generally unrelated to actual personal traits, intelligence, and talents.
d. As you discover that someone has a good personality, he or she will even start looking more attractive to you.
b
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a. a conjunction fallacy. b. the framing effect. c. the hindsight bias. d. the representativeness heuristic.
Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listened to two different messages, one presented to each ear, found that people
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