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Gloria flirts with her office mate and accuses her husband of having an affair. which defense mechanism may be operative?

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The answer is Projection. This is a type of defense mechanism used in which the unwanted feelings are displaced onto other people. This kind of defense mechanism occurs when a person is being threatened by his own feelings of anger and accuses another person of what they do or did.

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