One day you overhear two scientists talking. “I study rejection sensitivity,” one of them says. What does he or she study, specifically?
a) People’s tendency to anxiously anticipate, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection from relationship partners
b) People’s characteristic beliefs, attitudes, and expectations about the self as worthy or unworthy of love, other people as available or unavailable, and relationships as rewarding or punishing
c) People’s beliefs, values, and expectations about love and the nature of romantic relationships
d) People’s assumptions about the relationship experiences of others
a) People’s tendency to anxiously anticipate, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection from relationship partners
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