Elliot Aronson modified Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory in his proposal of self-consistency dissonance theory. The main idea of Aronson’s modification is
a. some people’s personalities cause them to be reliably consistent or inconsistent
b. some people are prone to higher degrees of dissonance than others in certain situations
c. people experience dissonance when they act in ways they see as reflecting poorly on themselves
d. some people do not experience dissonance at all
Ans: C
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