Not wanting to “rub it in” around his friends, Greg shows much less happiness about getting accepted to law school than he really feels. Greg is ______.
a. masking an emotion
b. neutralizing an emotion
c. deintensifying an emotion
d. overintensifying an emotion
c. deintensifying an emotion
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each purpose. What will be an ideal response?
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