As Noted in the Textbook,at the Beginning of the Iraq

question 5

Multiple Choice

As noted in the textbook,at the beginning of the Iraq war only 38% of Americans said the war was justified even if Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.When no such weapons were found after the war,58% of Americans then supported the war.Myers explains this revision of people's memories of the government's rationale for going to war as an example of

• A)self-presentation.
• B)cognitive dissonance.
• C)self-justification.
• D)self-perception.

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