In a 2012 study examining how personal self-evaluation and classification of feedback impact the experience of schadenfreude, the participants' self-evaluation was manipulated by:
A) calling the participants mean names.
B) providing participants either negative or positive feedback.
C) showing them movies that made them sad or made them angry.
D) being told they were being expelled from the university.

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The study manipulated participants' self-evaluation by providing them either negative or positive feedback, which directly influenced their self-perception and subsequent reactions to others' misfortunes or successes.

In a 2012 Study Examining How Personal Self-Evaluation and Classification