According to Richard Lazarus, people tend to evaluate a stimulus as good or bad, threatening or supportive, relevant or irrelevant, and so on. This illustrates

a. emotional appraisal.
b. unconscious attribution.
c. cognitive distinction.
d. facial feedback.


A

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