Hanna is a 70-year-old woman who has a choice: she can either go out with some old friends or make some new friends at the community center. Socioemotional selectivity theory would predict that if Hanna's decision is based on emotional regulation, she will

a. choose to make new friends

b. go out with her old friends.
c. stay home and see no one.
d. invite her old friends to the community center so that they can all make new friends.


b

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