Emotions appear to serve useful social functions in any culture because they

a. help people feel good about themselves.
b. release pent-up energy.
c. communicate important information to other members of that culture.
d. help individuals to understand their own behaviors.
e. are indicators of specific physiological conditions.

c. communicate important information to other members of that culture.

Psychology

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According to the research on students' distribution of their study time, they tend to

a. systematically study the difficult items more than the easy ones. b. study the difficult items somewhat more than the easy ones. c. devote the same amount of time to both the difficult items and the easy ones. d. study the easy ones somewhat more than the difficult ones.

Psychology

In the Jones case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that ______

a. persons found to be insane cannot be institutionalized for periods longer than the jail sentence they would have received if found guilty for the offense of which they were accused b. there is a necessary correlation between the severity of a criminal offense and the amount of time in which a person found to be insane can be institutionalized because of that offense c. persons found to be insane must go to jail if they are "cured" and released from a mental institution in a time period that is shorter than the sentence they would have received if found guilty of the offense for which they were accused d. there is no correlation between the severity of a criminal offense and the amount of time for which a person found to be insane can be institutionalized because of that offense

Psychology