Question

Suppose that you and your best friend are both psychology majors and both want to go to grad school in psychology. Your friend is also a talented athlete, whereas athletics is not that important to you. One day you find out that your friend won an intramural free throw shooting contest. Which of the following is MOST likely to happen, according to self-evaluation maintenance theory?(A) You will study really hard for the next psychology test in order to do better. than your friend(B) You will bask in your friend's reflected glory and congratulate him or her on winning the free throw contest.(C) You will become less close to your friend.(D) You will decide that you are not that interested in psychology.

Answer 1

Answer:

B) You will bask in your friend's reflected glory and congratulate him or her on winning the free throw contest.

Explanation:

According to Tesser's self-assessment, our self-concept may be threatened or stimulated by someone else's behavior, the level of the threat determined by both the other's proximity and the importance to us of the behavior. From this, we can conclude that if you have a close friend who has won a free-throw shooting competition, according to the theory of maintaining self-evaluation, you are more likely to enjoy your friend's reflected glory and congratulate him. you for winning the free throw contest.