After an unsuccessful attempt to train her puppy one morning, Sharon, the office manager, scolds her assistant when she arrives for work. Sharon is displaying which of the following defense mechanisms?

A. Rationalization
B. Malingering
C. Displacement
D. Sublimation

Respuesta :

Answer is C: displacement; throwing her anger from her puppy onto the assistant.

Hope she apologizes later or her assistant might become unhappy