Byrne tested these ideas using three different lines of thinking. A stranger who is known to have attitudes and beliefs similar to those of the person is better liked than a stranger with attitudes dissimilar to those of the person. ... To test the findings a rating scale was used as the measure of interpersonal attraction and evaluation with each variable represented in the seven-point scale (Byrne, Nelson, 1965). ... This has been tested many times in the past but has failed due to the manipulation of the topic. ... The fake stranger's attitudes were faked by their agreeability wit...

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After reading and rereading these great American classics, one question surfaced and resurfaced in my mind. ... In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", people who claim they are innocents are put to the test when a stranger gets into the smug regions of the town's minds by using their own vanity against them. ... The story begins with a stranger, who had taken offense to a wrong done to him in the town, vowed to be the one to corrupt it. ... The only way they could claim the prize was to repeat the advice given to the stranger. According to his instructions, they published the stranger&...

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While examining "Power versus feminist theories," it is important to acknowledge what is known about our research question. ... Researchers have attempted to answer the many questions associated with wife abuse and have been successful in some areas yet neglect important issues. ... This survey asked respondents five questions with reference to the patriarchal family. ... The VAWS addressed this ethical dilemma by making the purpose of questions known to the respondents. ... Previous studies on violence have focused on explaining stranger violence - crimes that occur on the street or in public...

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While examining "Power versus feminist theories," it is important to acknowledge what is known about our research question. ... Researchers have attempted to answer the many questions associated with wife abuse and have been successful in some areas yet neglect important issues. ... This survey asked respondents five questions with reference to the patriarchal family. ... The VAWS addressed this ethical dilemma by making the purpose of questions known to the respondents. ... Previous studies on violence have focused on explaining stranger violence - crimes that occur on the street or in public...

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If blacks score far below whites on a test with real-word consequences, people will want to know who selected the questions and why they choice those questions instead of the others. ... Another way to cross content bias is to abandon a priori judgments and simply ask how much the black white various from one question to the next. ... The person usually giving the test is a stranger and more often a white than black. ... The instructions for administering the tests are quite rigid, so people give the wrong answer because he or she does not understand the question. ... Standardized tests as...

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The question of `why golf" can be answered by our natural instinct to seek out and spend sacred time. ... The initiation is an overall test for those wishing to join a foursome. This test is grades two things, personality and skill. Playing golf with strangers is often quite nerve racking. ... Golfing with three complete strangers can really bring nerves into play especially after a bad shot off the first tee. ...

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This research is important because it will look at evidence touted by both sides of the argument, and test their conclusions for causality and empirical validity. Furthermore, this research seeks to free itself of biases that have accompanied the growth of the GMO industry, and formulate a scholarly and testable hypothesis as to whether genetically modified crops are truly having a deleterious effect on our health and environment, or whether this is just a scare tactic impeding human progress. ... The results of using this method reveals a shortcoming in the institutional regulation of potent...

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He worked in a lab and tested nine participants having one being a confederate, knowing when to say the wrong answer. ... In Asch's experiments, students were told that they were participating in a 'vision test' (Asch, 1956). ... At first, the confederates answered the questions correctly, but eventually began providing incorrect answers. Asch told the participants that the purpose of the experiment was to test one's visual abilities. The real purpose was to test levels of conformity in group situations (Asch, 1956). ...

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In determining whether to reveal the clients information or not, a counselor should consider the legal requirements, the requirements of the institution in which they work and the most important aspect, the client in question (Pope and Vasquez, 2010). ...

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Foster care is when a child needs a temporary home with another family/stranger. ... The parent may be required to meet criteria such as: attending parent classes, Alcoholic Anonymous classes, monthly drug test, and or monthly-supervised visitation depending on the circumstances that may have resulted the placement of the children into the foster care system (National Foster Parent Association, 2007). The children are placed to live with a stranger, separated from the only parents they have known. ... For the parents, negative feelings of abandonment from the foster care system can c...

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On the day of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest, the Dallas police gave him a "nitrate" test. The test is designed to reveal any deposits of nitrate (from gunpowder) on the suspect's skin. According to the Dallas Police Oswald's hand and his right cheek were tested, but only his hand showed positive reactions to the test but not his cheeks. ... The unknown other marksmen raises the question of who put them there and who organised the assassination. ... Upon seeing Smith the stranger showed Secret Service credentials. ...

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When confronted with this question at the Sundance film festival, the producer Richard Gladstein explained it as "a very, very, very, very, violent comedy.... To begin Pulp Fiction, rather than a group of strangers sitting around a diner table, the scene places a man and woman, who do not appear to be strangers, together in a diner (p.108-109). ...

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It was simple, mental playthings like these that I tested myself with in the midst of all the waiting. ... However tedious and unpleasant the political atmosphere of an airport became, there was no question about how awesome (in the true sense of the word) leaving the ground in an airplane actually was. ... " Most of all, I would often stumble upon myself pondering the question "What would happen if this window broke? ...

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When they reach the age sixteen they can choose to take a test called the General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) to get out of school or they can choose to go on for another two years. At eighteen they have the opportunity again to take a test, which will enable them to be accepted in to a University or College, called the General Certificate Education test (GCE)(Culture Gram2002). ...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was the turning point for America's role in World War II. On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the...

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"You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can't sleep. What happens then is there's a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet...

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When someone goes against behavioral constraints, others make an excuse for that persons actions by calling them sick or crazy in order for them to not have to question their own conformed way of thinking, which is why the narrator often considers Krespel "mad" and is never able to see eye to eye with him. ... "Krespel's demeanor was stranger than anything that could be invented" (162). ...

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When someone goes against behavioral constraints, others make an excuse for that persons actions by calling them sick or crazy in order for them to not have to question their own conformed way of thinking, which is why the narrator often considers Krespel "mad" and is never able to see eye to eye with him. ... "Krespel's demeanor was stranger than anything that could be invented" (162). ...

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He is very friendly to strangers and shows no fear to strike up a conversation with anyone. ... Om tests Arnav by arguing about toys and trying to seem more dominant by teaching Arnav how to play with his toys. ... Questions Om shows characteristics of Piaget's pre-operational stage within his answers. ... " I am testing Om's pre-causal thinking. ...

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In society today, there is a large percentage of the population that believe strangers are the biggest danger to their children. ... However, the assumption of abuse by strangers needs to be challenged. ... Between 50 to 100 kids are killed a year by strangers, whereas there are 1000 killed by parents- (cited in Furedi, 2002: 36). ... In America, the government expects a small bakery to pass a simple health and safety inspection, though it "never asks a coach who holds the lives of young pupils in his hands to pass a minimum safety and skills test- (Ryan, 1995: 12). ...

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The court in that case held that, in the words of Wightman J, "no stranger to the consideration could take advantage of a contract though made for his benefit." ... The idea that a contract requires consideration leads naturally to the view that a stranger to a contract cannot take advantage of its terms because he has not provided consideration. ... In the Law Commission's opinion, whilst the privity doctrine determines the question of who may enforce a contract, the doctrine of consideration decides which promises may be enforced. ...

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By the nineteenth century, the transfer of exotic plants and the search for wild plants that might be domesticated were activities that were becoming rationalized and organized and put at the service of industrial capitalism. Collectors were sent from Europe to the farthest reaches of the earth in ...

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Perhaps it was too risky to press strangers into a situation where there might be some apprehension about social interactions, and whether this activity would be reflective on their social skills or the lack of. ...

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According to my thorough research, the answer to this question lies within the heart of the Japanese culture. ... Purpose This report addresses the question of how an American executive can make a good first impression on a Japanese executive upon their first business meeting. ... You may also be surprised by some of the questions the Japanese ask. Questions may seem inappropriate or personal. ...

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The traveller is on a journey, it has been to the past, is in the present and headed for the future and our traveller is asking questions of them all. ... Many social and environmental issues are also tied in with this question. ... How is this foundation relevant to the questions we are asking about the future? ...

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