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 poorly 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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According to the Featured Study, when individuals receive negative outcomes that are consistent with their expectations (i.e. performing poorly on an exam that they were told would be difficult), they tend to experience less negative emotions than when they receive negative outcomes that are inconsistent with their expectations. Therefore, the individual in this scenario is likely to feel more negative about their math grade (which was expected to be easy) than their chemistry grade (which was expected to be difficult).

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