People engage in self-handicapping strategies in order to avoid

a. failure.
b. an internal attribution for failure.
c. an external attribution for failure.
d. a misattribution of failure.

Answer: B

Psychology

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a. Feminine activities have higher status than masculine activities. b. Masculine activities maintain a higher status than feminine activities. c. Masculine activities are increasingly ridiculed and debased. d. Feminine activities now share equal status with masculine activities.

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