One Implication of Tesser's Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model Is That

question 48

Multiple Choice

One implication of Tesser's self-evaluation maintenance model is that

• A) we are biased to believe that our friends' self-concepts are similar to our own.
• B) we can expect our good friends to help us succeed at anything because all of our successes reflect well on them.
• C) we should choose friends whom we outperform in domains relevant to our self-concept but who are talented in domains that are not relevant to the self.
• D) our friends' competencies (or lack thereof) do not influence our self-concept.

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