Social Psychologists Had African American Students Do Carefully Constructed Self-Affirming

question 113

Multiple Choice

Social psychologists had African American students do carefully constructed self-affirming writing assignments regarding their good qualities outside of school. This type of self-affirmation will not be effective in bolstering self-esteem unless __________.

• A) it is overly inflated
• B) it is overly positive and untrue
• C) it is overly negative and untrue
• D) it is realistic

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