For an assignment, Professor Hanson asks students to fill out a form to rate their personality, to fill out the form rating themselves as if they were a good friend, and to ask that same good friend to also fill out the form about them.Students find that their responses as their friends are more similar to their own ratings than to their friends' real responses.Which of the following helps explain this discrepancy:

A) People rarely provide full, honest feedback on their reactions to others
B) People often provide inconsistent and contradictory feedback
C) People frequently provide ambiguous and difficult to interpret feedback
D) All of the above

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David Valdez · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : D, Explanation :  This discrepancy can be explained by all the provided options: A) People may not always be fully honest in their feedback, possibly to avoid hurting feelings or due to social desirability bias; B) Feedback can often be inconsistent or contradictory, reflecting the complexity of human perception and interaction; C) Feedback is frequently ambiguous or hard to interpret, which can lead to misunderstandings or misinterpretations of others' views. Together, these factors contribute to the observed difference between how individuals perceive themselves, how they think their friends perceive them, and how their friends actually perceive them.

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