A 60-year-old male attends a smoking cessation class. He tells the nurse, "Even though I smoke, I don't smoke around children, in my car, or in my house" Which defense mechanism is this male exhibiting?
a. Displacement
b. Rationalization
c. Denial
d. Repression
ANS: B
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