Leo and Jenny had a major argument. That night, he gives her a lovely necklace to apologize. Jenny thinks that he gave her the necklace, not to make her happy, but to make himself feel better. Jenny is engaged in ____________, by making a ____________ attribution.

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Jenny is engaged in accommodation by adjusting her perception of Leo's actions, and she makes a distress-maintaining attribution by interpreting his gesture negatively, assuming it was for his own benefit rather than to make her happy.

Leo and Jenny Had a Major Argument