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Refusing to acknowledge one's own unconscious feelings and seeing them in someone else is:

ARationalisation
BProjection
CRegression
DRepression
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Projection
1. The defense mechanisms differ in where the feeling ends up. 2. In projection, a person refuses to acknowledge her own unconscious feelings. 3. Instead she sees those feelings in someone else. 4. In regression the person acts much younger than their age instead. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 11 'Personality', sections 11.1-11.9_
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