Susie has just seen her test grade on her latest psychology exam on the grade sheet posted by her professor.She was disappointed to see that she received 75 percent.She feels better,however,when she looks further down the list and finds that she did better than 60 percent of her classmates.Susie is engaging in:

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Susie is engaging in social comparison by comparing her score to the scores of her classmates to gain a better understanding of how she performed overall. The backfire effect occurs when someone's beliefs become stronger in the face of contradictory evidence, confirmation bias is when someone seeks out information that confirms their existing beliefs, and the misinformation effect occurs when someone's memory of an event is distorted by information they receive after the event.

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