Siegel, Scillitoe, and Parks-Yancy (2005) found that students who engaged in a high self-affirming task (writing about values important to them) were
a. more likely to engage in self-handicapping on a subsequent test than students who engaged in a low self-affirming task (writing about an unimportant value)
b. less likely to engage in self-handicapping on a subsequent test than students who engaged in a low self-affirming task (writing about an unimportant value)
c. more likely to think about the importance of school and academic achievement
d. less likely to engage in self-serving bias
Ans: B
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