Social Cognition, Presentation In Ted Talk, Amy Cuddy

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Video: https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are
Question 1: Which of the five core social motives (belonging, understanding, controlling, enhancing self, trusting others) do you think best explains the effects of power posing as discussed in Dr. Amy Cuddy’s talk?
Question 2: Complete the Personal Need for Structure scale at the following link:
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073381225/student_view0/chapter3/self-assessment_3_3.html
Dr. Susan Fiske states in the text that the motive to be decisive encourages relatively automatic processes and inhibits more controlled processes for making sense of the social world. Given your score, how do you make sense of this statement?
Question 3: The text describes the positivity bias – that people expect other people to be fairly competent, fairly nice, and fairly honest. This person positivity bias extends beyond not only how we view other people, but also how we view ourselves. For example, people expect that they are more likely than the average person to experience positive life events (like winning an award or being happily married) and less likely than the average person to experience negative life events (like having a heart attack or becoming an alcoholic). This bias is known as unrealistic optimism.
As another example, people tend to rate themselves as above average on almost every possible positive characteristic; in one study of over 1,000,000 high school seniors (Gilovich, 1991), 70% thought they were above average in leadership ability (only 2% rated themselves as below average), and all (100%!) thought that they were above average in the ability to get along with others. Note that this is statistically impossible – somebody must be below average! – but this is a common positivity bias known as unrealistic self-evaluation.
Do you think that these positivity biases (i.e., seeing the world through rose-colored glasses) are adaptive and functional or maladaptive and dysfunctional? Why?