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True or False:
More U.S. Students are shot to death at school now than ten or fifteen years ago.
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False:
More students were shot to death at U.S. schools in the early 1900s than now (National School Safety Center 2004).
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True or False:
The earnings of of U.S. women have just abot caught up with those of U.S. men.
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False:
Over the years, the wage gap has narrowed, but only slightly. On average, full-time working women earn less than 70 % of what full-time working men earn. This low figure is actually an improvement over earlier years.
(Statistical Abstract, 2005)
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True or False:
When faced with natural disasters such as flood and earthquakes, people panic and social organization disintegrates.
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False:
Following natural disasters, people develop greater cooperation and social organization to deal with the catastrophe.
(Henslin, 2007)
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True or False:
Most rapists are mentally ill.
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True or False:
Sociologists compared the psychological profiles of prisoners convicted of rape and prisoners convicted of other crimes. Their profiles were similar. Like robbery, rape is a learned behavior.
(Scully and Marolla 1984/2005)
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True or False:
Most people on Welfare are lazy and looking for a handout. They could work if they wanted to.
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False:
Most people on Welfare are children, the old, the sick, he mentally and physically handicapped, or young mothers with few skills. Less than 2% meet the stereotype of the able-bodied man or woman. (Statistical Abstract 2005)
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True or False:
Compared with men, women make more eye contact in face-to-face conversations.
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True:
Women make considerably mopre eye contact (Henley et. al 1985)
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True or False:
Couples who live together before marriage are usually more satisfied with their marriages than couples who do not live together before marriage.
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False:
The opposite is true. Researchers suggest that many couples who cohabit before marriage are less committed to marriage in the first place-and a key to marital success is a strong commitment to one another (Larson 1988; Duschl, Cohan and Amato 2003).
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True or False:
In families where both the husband and wife work, when a husband is laid off from work, he increases the amount of housework he does in the home.
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False:
When husbands get laid off, most reduce the amount of housework they do. (Hochschile 1998; Brines 1994)
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True or False:
Because bicyclists today are more likely to wear helmets now than just a few years ago, their rate of head injuries has dropped.
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False:
Bicyclists today are more likely to wear helmets, but their rate of head injuries is higher. Apparently they take more risks because the helmets make them feel safer (Barnes 2001)
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True or False:
Students in Japan are under such intense pressure to do well in school that their suicide rate is about double that of U.S. students
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False:
The suicide rate of U.S. students is about double that of Japanese students (Haynes & Chalkner 1997)
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