Which practice centers on exaggerating emotions to influence how others perceive you?

• A. Display Rules
• B. Interpersonal Influence
• C. Mask
• D. Intensify

Answer: (D)

Exaggerating emotions to influence how others perceive you focuses on intensifying your emotional display. In social interactions, intensifying means making your feelings appear stronger than they actually are to cue others to respond in a desired way or to seem more convincing, sympathetic, or engaged. This is one specific tactic within the broader idea of how we regulate facial and vocal expressions to fit social expectations. Mask, by contrast, is about concealing true feelings, not amplifying them; display rules are the norms governing when and how we show emotions, not the act of magnifying the emotion itself; and interpersonal influence is the overall goal of shaping others’ reactions, which can involve many strategies, not necessarily the act of exaggeration. So the practice described is intensifying.