After receiving exciting news about the birth of a healthy grandson, mr. haney was easily persuaded to contribute a generous sum of money to a neighborhood church. this best illustrates

a. the adaptation-level phenomenon.

b. catharsis.

c. subjective well-being.

d. the feel-good, do-good phenomenon.

This best illustrates the feel-good, do-good phenomenon. In addition, experts have discovered that the more people do acts of altruism, the higher they raise their self-worth and raise their gladness. As an outcome, this makes them want to endure to do a more optimistic loving habit which then makes them feel even better about themselves and makes them want to do even more acts of altruism and headlong the upward cycle goes.