Tom isn't having much success in meeting women. he asks his friend, tanya, to identify what he is doing that might be turning off the women he meets. since tanya has known him since they were in kindergarten, she tactfully but honestly tells him what she thinks. tom's reliance on his relationship with tanya reflects which strategy for improving one's self-esteem?

What are policymakers trying to do by using the media to deliver specific messages to citizens?

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. in the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. this occurred because groups seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.

Take a moment to consider other countries and their form of government. select a country that does not utilize the same form of democracy that the united states uses, identify the country you chose and compare their form of government to the u.s. how are the different types of government the same? how do they differ? which type of government do you think is more beneficial to it's citizen's?