Angela is a vegetarian who works in a local fast-food restaurant whose main fare is burgers and dogs. Although she feels that working at the restaurant is a bit of a contradiction, she says that vegetarianism is not the central belief system of her life and supporting herself is more important. In this example, Angela
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 her behaviour.
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