Evan felt a strong reaction when he found out he was not invited to the party his friend had planned for the following night. _________________ wasn't the most adaptive emotion-regulation strategy he could have used, but it was necessary because he had much work to complete before leaving for the ban??d competition that afternoon.

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The fact that Evan "felt a strong reaction" suggests that he experienced an emotional response to not being invited to the party. Out of the answer choices provided, only expressive suppression involves the deliberate attempt to hide or control one's emotional expression in response to a particular stimulus, which may be necessary in this case given Evan's need to focus on his work. Cognitive reappraisal, on the other hand, involves changing the way one thinks about a situation in order to alter the emotional response to it, which is not what is described in this scenario. Cognitive dissonance and cognitive distortion both involve the way one thinks about a situation, but neither directly address emotional regulation.

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