While Professor Gomez was going through a painful divorce,he tended to create unnecessarily difficult tests and gave his students unusually low grades. A psychoanalyst would be most likely to view the professor's treatment of students as an example of

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Displacement is a defense mechanism where an individual redirects their emotional feelings from the original source of stress to a safer or more convenient target. In this case, Professor Gomez is redirecting his emotional distress from his divorce onto his students by creating difficult tests and giving low grades.

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