While Professor Gomez Was Going Through a Painful Divorce,he Tended

question 14

Multiple Choice

While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce,he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades.A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of

• A) reaction formation.
• B) displacement.
• C) projection.
• D) regression.

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Optimal Capital Structure

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