You have just had a heart to heart conversation with your best friend. If you are a woman, how might your progesterone levels change and how will this impact you?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: According to a study, progesterone increases after women have an intimate conversation with someone, compared to a neutral conversation. Progesterone may promote a "tend and befriend" response to stress—seeking social support from others—instead of the fight-or-flight response to stress more common among those high in power motive. In the long run, the tend and befriend response (found more often among women) might be healthier for the immune system and possibly for heart health as well. It might be one reason why women are less likely to have heart attacks than men.
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a. ?factor analysis b. ?analysis of variance c. ?t-test d. ?chi-squared test
Who would see human aggression as a natural and instinctive reaction to the frustrations of daily life?
a. cognitive psychologists c. evolutionary psychologists b. behaviorists d. psychodynamic psychologists
________ are medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
You overhear two people talking after they see two gay parents attending their adopted child's "back to school night"
One says, "I feel really sorry for their daughter; she would be better off being raised in a single-parent family with no father in the picture rather than in a family with two fathers." The other agrees and adds, "She is going to be all screwed up." Is there research evidence to support any of their claims? What will be an ideal response?