In their study on self-affirmation, Creswell, Welch, Taylor, Sherman, Gruenwald, and Mann found that:
a. self-affirmation usually makes people feel immoral, incompetent, and inadequate.
b. people who affirmed themselves by thinking about their most important values were better able to cope with the stress generated by a challenging task.
c. stress associated with a boring task was unrelated to study participants' cortisol levels.
d. people who failed to affirm themselves were better able to cope with the stress generated by a boring and complicated task.
b
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