According to Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Decision Makers ________

question 32

Multiple Choice

According to cognitive dissonance theory, decision makers ________.

• A) try to maintain consistency between their images of themselves, their attitudes, and their decisions
• B) give preferential treatment to others they perceive to be members of their own groups
• C) tend to create models based on past data which are validated only against that past data
• D) overestimate others' ability to know them, and they also overestimate their ability to know others

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Definitions:

Predictive Information Extraction

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Experiment

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Data Mining

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