The adaptation level theory would suggest that long-term happiness is more dependent on:
A. other people's financial success
B. enjoying good news and the little pleasures of life
C. setting and reaching high goals
D. accumulating material things that give us pleasure
Answer: B
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a. the Yerkes-Dodson law b. sham c. catharsis d. excitation transfer
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a. there was a positive correlation between raters' assessments and e-mail users' self-reports. b. there was no agreement between raters and e-mail users in personality assessments. c. the students reported that they could not make assessments in this way. d. there is a strong relationship between self-report of personality characteristics and gender.