Gestures that facilitate the release of body tension, such as the nervous foot-shuffling of people who would probably rather be leaving, are called:

a. adaptors.
b. illustrators.
c. regulators.
d. emblems.


a

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A. U.S. racial categories are applied to endogamous breeding populations. B. U.S. racial categories are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in the 1970s in Louisiana. C. U.S. racial categories are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies. D. U.S. racial categories are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent. E. U.S. racial categories are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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a. True b. False

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