Embeddedness Makes Attitudes Resistant to Change Because

question 18

Multiple Choice

Embeddedness makes attitudes resistant to change because

• A) it makes people reject contradictory information.
• B) changing the attitude would mean changing many other aspects of the self.
• C) it makes people more committed to the attitude.
• D) it makes people review relevant information in a biased fashion.

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