James Is a Highly Narcissistic Male with a Big Ego

question 22

Multiple Choice

James is a highly narcissistic male with a big ego.He participates in a psychology experiment where he first received negative feedback from another student about his performance on a writing task,and then played a game against this student and won.As a result of winning,James was given the task of deciding the intensity and duration of an aversive auditory stimulus that would be played to the other student.According to research,James would have administered ________ auditory torture compared to people with normal self-esteem because wounded pride motivates ___________.

• A)the same amount of; humility
• B)more; retaliation
• C)less; embarrassment
• D)no; shame

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