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| Drawing attention to those elements that inhibit performance to try to induce the other person to discount a potential failure. |
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| Involves placing visible obstacles to success in one's own path. The obstacles make one less likely to succeed, but they provide a ready excuse for failure. |
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| "Feigned" Self-Handicapping |
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| A person merely claims that there were difficult obstacles in the path to success by making excuses for possible bad performance, either before or after the fact. |
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| Information about how well a given social strategy has fared is often biased because of people's _____ to convey to others their negative reactions. |
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| The problem of receiving biased feedback about a given strategy's effectiveness is compounded by an inability to adequately evaluate _____. |
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| We tend to attach too much significance to those occasions when the strategy proves to be effective, and too little to this times when it fails. |
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