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Still shaken from her near miss, she arrived home to find that her spouse had not yet started dinner, as he had promised to do. Sarah angrily accused him of being "a lazy bum" and started an argument with him. This situation can best be explained by ________. a) the frustration-aggression hypothesis
b) a hostile attributional bias
c) the excitation transfer theory
d) the provocation theory


c

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