In a Number of Recent Elections, the Candidates Have Been

question 108

Multiple Choice

In a number of recent elections, the candidates have been criticized for creating advertisements that show their opponents in a negative light, instead of creating ads that present the candidate's views on key issues.Each of these two different campaign styles illustrates different aspects of:

• A)the cognitive dissonance model of attitude formation
• B)the fundamental attribution error
• C)the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion
• D)the self-perception theory of attitude formation

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