In Helping to Encourage Readers to Overcome Fear of Rejection

question 22

Multiple Choice

In helping to encourage readers to overcome fear of rejection and to convey interest in an attractive person,the authors of Chapter 15 ("Personal Relationships") reviewed the study by Vorauer and Ratner (1996) .In that study,participants had to imagine meeting an attractive person and having the interaction end with neither of them communicating interest in seeing the other again.Participants explained the failure to communicate interest by blaming

• A) both their own inaction and the other person's inaction on a lack of interest
• B) both their own inaction and the other person's inaction on a fear of rejection
• C) their own inaction on a lack of interest and the other person's inaction on a fear of rejection
• D) their own inaction on a fear of rejection and the other person's inaction on a lack of interest

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