Tony Is an Environmentalist Who Works in a Local Logging

Tony is an environmentalist who works in a local logging mill producing pulp and paper. Although he feels that working at the mill is a contradiction, he says that it was the only job that he could find, and now that he has gotten two raises, he is making more money there than he could if he were to find another job. In this example, Tony

A) probably never experienced any cognitive dissonance.
B) reduced dissonance by reducing the importance of one of the dissonant elements.
C) reduced dissonance by adding consonant elements.
D) reduced dissonance by changing one of the dissonant elements.
E) maintained dissonance by justifying his behaviour.