An individual finds out he lost his job. The next day, he storms into the office where he used to work and shoots some of his coworkers because he was "just so angry at all of them." This action would be classified as

A) indirect aggression.
B) assertive aggression.
C) emotional aggression.
D) instrumental aggression.


Answer: C

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