When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York, many people were missing. In many cases, their relatives stayed calm and looked for the missing in local hospitals
This calm response is likely due to relatives' use of the defense mechanism of A) projection.
B) repression.
C) reaction formation.
D) denial.
E) sublimation.
D
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A) insecurities. B) emotional self-disclosure. C) loneliness. D) all of the above
Recall that Ekman and Friesen (1971) have demonstrated that Fore tribespeople from a preliterate culture in New Guinea were able to decode the facial expressions of Westerners and encode emotion easily interpretable by Westerners
Their findings suggest that Darwin was a. right—facial expressions are species specific. b. wrong—facial expressions are culture specific. c. right—facial expressions are culture specific. d. wrong—facial expressions are universal among humans.