When Joelle received a bad report card, she tried to avoid any consequences by separately telling her grandmother and her mother that her school was so advanced that it no longer gave individual grades. Considering the positivity effect, the likely
response to this lie was that
a. the mother believed Joelle and the grandmother didn’t.
b. both the mother and the grandmother didn’t believe Joelle.
c. the mother didn’t believe Joelle but the grandmother did.
d. the mother and grandmother both believed Joelle.
Answer: c
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