Eagly,Chen,Chaiken,and Shaw-Barnes (1999)discuss Why People Show Enhanced Recall and Recognition

Eagly,Chen,Chaiken,and Shaw-Barnes (1999) discuss why people show enhanced recall and recognition of information that is consistent with their attitudes when the topic is important to their values,They suggest this is the case because ______,

A) values have survival value in an evolutionary sense
B) value-related attitudes are typically more extreme than value-unrelated attitudes
C) value-related attitudes elicit content-relevant attention and thinking
D) a value-relevant topic elicits a desire to defend the self-concept