Embeddedness makes attitudes resistant to change because
A) it makes people reject contradictory information.
B) changing the attitude would mean changing many other aspects of the self.
C) it makes people more committed to the attitude.
D) it makes people review relevant information in a biased fashion.
Answer: B
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