In 2003, American and British leaders justified attacking Iraq not as a hostile effort to kill Iraqis but as an act of liberation and of self-defense against presumed weapons of mass destruction. Social psychologists would consider this an example of ________ aggression.

A. instrumental
B. impulsive
C. duplicitous
D. manipulative


Answer: A

Psychology

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