Julia eats granola bars and avoids chocolate bars, even though the granola bars contain 50 percent more fat and 15 percent more sodium than the chocolate bars. According to a social cognition approach, why might that be? Julia
a. is motivated to see herself as a healthy person.
b. is motivated to convince her friends that she is a healthy person.
c. failed to seek out all the relevant facts about the nutritional value of those snacks.
d. needs to justify paying more for the granola bar.
Answer: C
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