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psychology of personality

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____-____________ is when people deliberately do things that increase the probability of failure   self-handicapping  
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_________ is when people can count on you to be the same person tomorrow as you are today   continuity  
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________ is how your social identity differentiates you from others and makes you unique in the eyes of others   contrast  
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feelings of anxiety that accompanies efforts to define or redefine one’s individuality and social reputation is known as an ________ ______   identity crisis  
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an _______ _______ involves an incompatibility between two or more aspects of identity   identity conflict  
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________ describes the ways in which individuals unintentionally elicit predictable reactions from others in their social environments.   evocation  
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_________ includes ways in which people intentionally try to change the behavior of others   manipulation  
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what is the most desirable characteristic in a mate internationally?   mutual attraction or love  
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_________ ______ is when people are married to people who are similar to themselves   assortative mating  
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do people prefer their mate to have opposite personalities or similar personalities?   similar  
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do differences in ideal partners and their actual partner influence marital satisfaction and happiness?   no  
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when one's desires are more often violated than they are fulfilled, couples are most likely to do what?   break-up  
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women who are ___ are less likely to go to the gynecologist and less likely to bring up contraception with their potential partners   shy  
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people who are more __________ are more likely to volunteer for community activities   empathetic  
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those high on ____________ seem to choose volatile and spontaneous situations   psychoticism  
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those high on ________________ prefer face-to-face situations   machiavellianism  
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people high on _____________ tend to be selected more often by others as friends   agreeableness  
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the tendency to infer hostile intent on the part of others in the face of uncertain behavior from them is known as what?   hostile attributional bias  
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__________ ____________ are people’s beliefs about personality characteristics of others cause them to evoke in others actions that are consistent with initial beliefs   expectancy confirmation  
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the taxonomy of manipulation tactics was developed through a 2-step procedure; nominations of acts of _________ and factor ________   influence; analysis  
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high machs select situations that are _______ _________ and untethered by rules that restrict the deployment of exploitative strategy   loosely structured  
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what manipulation tactics do low-agreeable individuals use?   coercion & the silent treatment  
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Those high on narcissism are exhibitionistic, ________ , self-centered, and interpersonally exploitative   grandiose  
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