Urged on by his trouble-making friends, John robs a bank. When the police arrest him for the robbery, John expresses shock that he could have done such a thing. Through his hasty commitment to his "friends," John has undergone the process of ______

a. identity diffusion

b. desocialization

c. deinstitutionalization

d. deindividuation


D

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