Author Question: When people try to maintain their self-esteem and reduce cognitive dissonance, they may resort to ... (Read 147 times)

c0205847 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

When people try to maintain their self-esteem and reduce cognitive dissonance, they may resort to maladaptive thinking known as

a. heuristics.
b. schemas.
c. norms.
d. rationalizing.

Question 2

A tobacco grower says, I'm not the only one growing it. If I stop, someone else will be there.

Assuming that the man was experiencing dissonance from the fact that he was making his living from a crop that is bad for people's health, he appears to be reducing this dissonance by
a. changing his behavior.
b. changing his cognitions.
c. adding new cognitions.
d. self-affirmation in an unrelated domain.