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savannahhooper · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Many fraternities, sororities, and sports teams have initiation rituals. For example, at one school, all the members of the soccer team must wear unusual clothing everywhere on campus for an entire day and then have embarrassing haircuts.

These rituals try to capitalize on the role of ________ in increasing commitment via self-justification.

a. suffering
b. the affiliation motive
c. reinforcement
d. social power

Question 2

One potential problem of justifying past behavior in order to protect our self-esteem is that

a. people tend to become narcissistic.
b. people distort reality and deny any negative information about themselves.
c. it hinders people from learning from their past mistakes.
d. it leads people to present themselves as being better than they really are.