Your Boss Told You That She Is Giving You a 5

Multiple Choice

Your boss told you that she is giving you a 5 percent raise starting with your next paycheck.You are very pleased to hear this good news until you learn that some of your coworkers earned a 10 percent raise.Now you are unhappy and angry about your raise.Your experience is best explained in terms of

A) the adaptation-level phenomenon.
B) the relative deprivation principle.
C) displacement.
D) Parkinson's second law.