What Does the Existential Perspective Suggest Is the Reason Why

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Multiple Choice

What does the existential perspective suggest is the reason why people are quite sensitive to even small violations of expected meanings?

• A) People prefer to seek out moments of uncertainty in the hope that they will discover new sources of meaning in life.
• B) People experience negative arousal whenever their standard meanings are violated.
• C) If the world is not an orderly place, people may be unable to maintain faith that any of their accomplishments will be remembered after they die.
• D) The earliest humans who were sensitive to violated meanings were more likely to survive and reproduce than those who were insensitive to such violations.

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