While visiting a friend's house, a delinquent teen takes several valuable baseball trading cards from a collection belonging to the friend's father. The teen tells himself, "I'm not stealing them, I'm just borrowing them for a while." The teen is engaging in

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Differentiation involves altering the perception of the act to make it seem less negative, as the teen is doing by calling it "borrowing" instead of "stealing."

While Visiting a Friend's House, a Delinquent Teen Takes Several