Sal's ideas about germs and contamination make life very difficult. He eats little and is underweight. He won't go out in public, which cost him his job and friends. Sal's behavior would be considered abnormal based on:

a. statistical deviance
b. personal distress
c. cultural deviance
d. dysfunction


D

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