If Your Goal Is to Do Something Nice for Someone

If your goal is to do something nice for someone, you only have to think of one thing to do. If your goal is to avoid offending people, you have to be continuously on guard for signs of any offense in all your social interactions. This example highlights one reason that avoidance goals are more difficult to achieve. Avoidance goals

A) involve negative behaviors where one slip up causes failure.
B) require constant monitoring and vigilance that may deplete our self- control resources.
C) require us to behave "out of character" which makes us self-conscious.
D) are easily detected by others and considered disingenuous.