A Smoker Who Claims That the Habit Is Not as Dangerous

question 37

True/False

A smoker who claims that the habit is not as dangerous as antismoking messages suggest, saying "My grandmother smokes and she's in her 80s," is attempting to reduce cognitive dissonance.

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Definitions:

Extrasensory Perception

The claimed ability to obtain information about the environment or the future beyond the use of the known senses.

Unparsimonious

Describes explanations or theories that are more complex or include more assumptions than necessary to explain phenomena.

Falsifiable

A criterion of scientific theory that requires it to be capable of being proven false through observation or experiment.

Replicable

Capable of being repeated or duplicated under similar conditions, often used in the context of experiments or studies to verify results.