Someone reminds you to be appropriately grateful for the gifts you receive. Were a dissonance theorist to remind you to be thankful, he or she would be giving you advice on how to __________.
A) avoid cognitive dissonance
B) avoid things that might be costly
C) prevent consonance in your cognitions
D) prevent insufficient justification

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A dissonance theorist would advise you to be appropriately grateful for gifts in order to avoid cognitive dissonance, which is the uncomfortable feeling of holding two conflicting beliefs or attitudes. By showing gratitude, you are reducing the dissonance between the belief that you value the gift and the attitude of not expressing gratitude.

Someone Reminds You to Be Appropriately Grateful for the Gifts