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penza

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According to the authors of your text, what is one major danger of engaging in self-justification strategies?
 
  a. We experience cognitive dissonance.
  b. We will have lower self-esteem.
  c. We can end up becoming prejudiced.
  d. We can fail to learn from our mistakes.

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Participants in an experiment conducted by Davis and Jones (1960) were instructed to provide hurtful feedback to another person (actually a confederate, of course).
 
  After providing such mean assessments of his performance, participants then evaluated him privately. After providing this criticism, these participants' evaluations of the confederate were more ________ because the ________.
  a. positive; participants regretted having hurt an innocent victim
  b. negative; participants convinced themselves that the victim deserved it
  c. negative; victim did not stand up for himself after the insults
  d. positive; participants wanted to assuage their feelings of guilt


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trampas

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


penza

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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