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book Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers cover

Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0073310268
book Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers cover

Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0073310268
Exercise 50
Your boss told you that she is giving you a 5% raise starting with your next paycheck. You are very pleased to hear this good news until you learn that some of your coworkers earned a 10% raise. Now you are unhappy and angry about your raise. Your experience is best explained in terms of
A) the adaptation-level phenomenon.
B) the relative deprivation principle.
C) displacement.
D) Parkinson's second law.
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