Your chemistry professor tells the class that his exams are extremely challenging and that most students tend to perform poorly on them while your math professor tells the class that his exams are extremely easy. Upon receiving your exam grades you score very highly on both exams. Based on the results of the Featured Study on how expectations influence emotional reactions to positive and negative outcomes what type of emotional reaction are you likely to show?

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You are likely to feel more highly positive about your chemistry grade because the expectation was that the exam would be challenging and most students perform poorly, so exceeding this expectation leads to a stronger positive emotional reaction.

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