Sunday, July 18, 2010

Cell phone etiquette

How different do you think cell phone etiquette is different in different countries?
How do you feel when people have loud private conversations on the cell phone in your presence? How do you react?
In what particular places do you think cell phone calls should be kept to a minimum? Why?

Here’s a video on the subject.



Answer the following questions:
  1. What was the goal of the experiment?
  2. How did people react?
  3. How does the psychologist explain their attitudes?
  4. How do people justify their reactions?
  5. Are people's reactions different when the caller is a woman?
  6. How does the psychologist explain people's first reactions?
  7. What reactions follow when the woman admits she lied to her boss?
  8. How do people explain their own reactions?
  9. What explanations are offered by the journalist to explain the differences in behaviors when the caller is a man and when it is a woman? 
  10. How does the psychologist justify the differences?
Useful adjectives


Useful verbs and verbal phrases

disrupt
warn
threaten
disrobe
do what(ever) it takes
send someone in
make a difference
to be on the line
to freak out
to be unaccounted for
to cling on every word
to take something somewhere
to have enough (of something)
to back down

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