Assignment 17

PSY 100

Read the article, "Positive affect and...."

1. Describe how the article suggests that your personality can be correlated with how likely you are to get a cold.

2. Since this is just a correlation between PA and chance of getting a cold, there are possible alternative explanations beyond the possibility that PA influences one's chance of getting a cold. What might be an alternative explanation for why there is this correlation?

3. (Optional) How could you test that alternative explanation?