The Day After the Wassamatta U

question 113

Multiple Choice

The day after the Wassamatta U. bocce ball team wins a big, important victory, you notice a marked increase in the number of students strutting around campus wearing clothes with the WU logo and chanting "We won . . . we won. . . ." This behavior is most likely due to __________.

• A) students' strong need for implicit self-esteem
• B) a vocal subgroup of students who are practicing self-evaluation maintenance
• C) students' basking in the reflected glory of the successful bocce ball team
• D) social stigma exerted by the bocce ball players on the student body at large

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