Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

تمرين 44

Arthur did not work very hard on his last class essay assignment, so he was relieved at first to find that he had gotten a C. But when he learned that most of his classmates had gotten B's and A's, he felt unhappy and angry about his grade. Arthur's experience is best explained in terms of
A) the adaptation-level phenomenon.
B) the relative deprivation principle.
C) displacement.
D) Parkinson's second law.