Alicia and her friends are singing karaoke. Alicia is an extremely talented singer—much better than her friends. She feels awkward about being so good, however, so she sort of "fakes bad"; she doesn't want her friends to be envious of her singing talent. Social psychologists would say that Alicia is experiencing ____
a. sensitivity about being the target of threatening downward comparison
b. sensitivity about being the target of threatening upward comparison
c. the commons dilemma
d. audience inhibition
B
Psychology
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Gilligan (1982) argued that Kohlberg's theory of moral development is gender biased. She asserts that males use a justice orientation, whereas females use a
A) verbal reasoning. B) care ethic. C) community view. D) family perspective.
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