Which of the following is the best example of social referencing?
A) Rachel is not hurt when she takes a tumble on the playground, but when she sees her mother looking alarmed she begins to cry as though she were badly injured.
B) Will gets sick soon after eating a big bowl of chili and declares that he will never eat chili again.
C) Three-year-old Jeannie gets a shot from her doctor. Later in the day she sees a picture of a woman in a white coat and pushes it away.
D) Audra learns that when she eats all of her dinner, her parents let her have dessert.

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Social referencing refers to the process of using others' emotional reactions to guide our own behavior. In this scenario, Rachel looks to her mother's emotional reaction as a cue for how she should respond to her own injury, even though she may not have been hurt.

Which of the Following Is the Best Example of Social