Tenses & SVA Quiz

If there is a way to define jealousy in its most narrow scope, then it would probably be the feeling of anxious insecurity that ____________________________ (follow) the perception of threat to a relationship which provides important attention.

Perceiving such a threat ____________________________ (make) a person feel insecure about the status of the relationship and thus also about the aspects of the self that are sustained by it.

There is the hypothesis that at the heart of feelings of jealousy ___________________________ (lie) our need to feel needed.

This need exists because relationships ____________________________ (define) certain aspects of who we are.

However, when there ____________________________ (be) no one to be funny with or no one who is attracted to us, our self-definition of funny or attractive ____________________________ (dissipate).

Humans are deeply social creatures - how we feel about ourselves ____________________________ (have) to do with our interactions with others.

As a matter of fact, there ____________________________ (be) no personality traits in a vacuum.

Someone stealing away our chess partner's time ____________________________ (not, threaten) our self-concept nearly as much as someone stealing away our girlfriend's time.

We have a biological need for a romantic other that ____________________________ (eclipse) our need for a chess partner, which explains why feelings of deprival are intensified.

On normal working days in a laboratory at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, ‎New York, Debra Lee Magadini ____________________________ (position) a slide under a microscope.