Which of the following explanations of the origins of gender stereotypes is most consistent with evolutionary psychology?
A. People associate men with competitive and dominant traits because of their high social status in society.
B. Men are prone to risk taking because society rewards risky behavior in men more than women.
C. People infer women are nurturing because they observe them caring for children more than men.
D. People associate men with assertiveness because such traits facilitated man’s likelihood of reproducing.
D. People associate men with assertiveness because such traits facilitated man’s likelihood of reproducing.
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a. James Fenimore Cooper b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Nathaniel Hawthorne d. Herman Melville
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A. a maximum six-year participation in the federal welfare system. B. free medical care to all Americans over the age of seventy. C. federal support for parental leave following the birth of a child. D. a program to replace Social Security with private retirement vouchers. E. a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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A. Northern politicians who took offices in Southern states. B. Northern white veterans who moved to the South. C. former confederates who moved to the West. D. white Southerners who moved to the North. E. freedmen who moved out of the South.