Josephine wants to stay at home and finish her school work. when her best friend, katie, calls her to go to a mall, josephine obliges to katie's request to avoid a conflict. in this scenario, josephine's response is called

In this scenario, Josephine's response is called placating.

Explanation:

Placating is a way of responding to a person in order to be in terms of agreement with him or her. In this case Josephine accepted an invitation without really wanting to do it, but to pleaced her friend and to avoid giving a negative response.

A person can responde in differnt ways, and it is not always in correspondance with what that person really wants.

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