Question

Though they had all been together on the transcontinental flight for three hours, the passengers didn't start to talk to one another until the plane ran into some serious turbulence. This behavior is best explained by the___

Answer 1

Answer: tendency for external threat to increase affiliation

Explanation: The tendency for external threat to increase affiliation is a phenomenon which may be observed among individuals in a gathering or group whereby each individual often maintain a reserved status of keeping to one's self, however, when the gathering is exposed to threatening incident or scenes, dialogue persist between indivuduals in the gathering, which is at first relevant to the context of the external incident suffered by the gathering but may later transcend into different subject matter. The dialogue or discussion between passengers on the plane discussed above was due to the turbulence experienced by the aircraft.

Answer 2

Answer:

tendency for external threat to increase affiliation.

Explanation:

Their behaviour is best explained by the tendency for external threat to increase affiliation because normally People are motivated to maintain an optimum balance of time alone and social contact but at the point when the plan was experiencing turbulence, every passanger needed to be coordinated as one unit and they needed to interact (communicate) with one another and share ideas on how to stay safe.