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According to Research in Your Text, People Overestimate the Enduring

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According to research in your text, people overestimate the enduring impact of emotion-causing negative events. For example,


A) people tested for HIV predict that they will feel misery over bad news and elation over good news, but research shows that five weeks later it is more likely for the bad news recipients to be less distraught than the good news recipients.
B) people tested for HIV predict that they will feel misery over bad news and elation over good news, but research shows that five weeks later the bad news recipients are more distraught than they anticipated and the good news recipients are not as elated as they thought they will be.
C) people tested for HIV predict that they will feel misery over bad news and elation over good news, but research shows that five weeks later the bad news recipients are more distraught than they anticipated originally and the good news recipients more elated than they thought they will be.
D) people tested for HIV predict that they will feel misery over bad news and elation over good news, but research shows that five weeks later it is more unlikely for the bad news recipients to be less distraught than the good news recipients.

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