One day at your job, you discover that one of your coworkers has told another coworker about your romantic relationship with a colleague. When you find out what happened and approach him about it, he says, "Everyone would have found out eventually anyway. It's not that bad." Which of the following remedial strategies has your coworker used?

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Your coworker used justification as a remedial strategy by trying to minimize the perceived wrongness of his actions with a rationale, suggesting that the outcome was inevitable.

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