Your Best Friend Criticizes You and Then Offers You a Compliment

Your best friend criticizes you and then offers you a compliment. Research suggests that:

A) the compliment would soften the blow of the criticism, but the combination will still leave you distressed.
B) you will be delighted with the compliment and ignore the criticism.
C) the compliment and the criticism will cancel each other out, leaving you in the same state you started in.
D) you will question your friend's reasons for giving the compliment but not question the reasons for the criticism.