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What is likely to happen if every morning a person low in self-esteem repeats self-affirmations such as "every day, in every way, i am getting better and better"?

a. the individual will become slightly more aggressive.
b. nothing will happen, as these interventions do little to change self-esteem.
c. the individual will start to report increased self-esteem.
d. the individual will start to report feeling worse?

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C- Psychology suggests that if you keep repeating something, especially every single day the person will eventually come to believe that what they are saying is true 
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