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Students often pick on Tito, but he says that this behavior is a sign that the other students like him. What defense mechanism is Tito displaying?
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Responses

regression
regression

projection
projection

compensation
compensation

rationalization

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Rationalization — he’s giving a socially acceptable explanation (they like him) for being picked on, to justify or disguise the true unpleasantness.