Making excuses or claiming obstacles can be successful self-promotion strategies because they follow from the
A) self-serving bias.
B) ingratiation strategy.
C) self-handicapping bias.
D) discounting and augmenting principles.
Answer: D
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a. B. F. Skinner. b. Carl Rogers. c. Wilhelm Wundt. d. Sigmund Freud.
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cognitive sociocultural social learning epigenetic
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