Cognitive dissonance is an extremely useful tool in social thinking because

a. it comforts those who control the contrived reality in which we live today.
b. it forces people to confront the difference between what we are told should exist and what is
permitted to exist.
c. it allows people to reconcile the difference between what we are told should exist and what is
permitted to exist.
d. it allows people to evade the difference between what we are told should exist and what is
permitted to exist


B

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