In a 2012 Study Examining How Personal Self-Evaluation and Classification

question 109

Multiple Choice

In a 2012 study examining how personal self-evaluation and classification of feedback impact the experience of schadenfreude, the participants' self-evaluation was manipulated by:

• A) calling the participants mean names.
• B) providing participants either negative or positive feedback.
• C) showing them movies that made them sad or made them angry.
• D) being told they were being expelled from the university.

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