The tendency for people to view their behavior as caused by compelling extrinsic reasons, making them underestimate the extent to which it was caused by intrinsic reasons.
A. over-justification effect
B. intrinsic motivation
C. misattribution of arousal
D. appraisal theories of emotion
Ans: A. over-justification effect
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