In the field study in which members of a cult were expecting to be taken on a spaceship to a distant planet, it was found that when they realized that neither the flood nor the rescuers were forthcoming, they proselytized actively. This way of reducing dissonance is known as:
a. social support
b. insufficient justification
c. counter-attitudinal behaviour
d. selective exposure to information
e. post-decision regret
Ans: a
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What will be an ideal response?