Displacement is

A) ?attributing to others our own unacceptable desires and impulses.
B) ?redirecting emotional, usually hostile, impulses from the real object to a substitute person or object.
C) ?behaving in a manner contrary to one's real feelings.
D) ?manufacturing a false, but "good," excuse to justify unacceptable behavior.


B

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