While watching Entertainment Tonight,a woman noticed the show had a feature on Chondroitin,a drug that helps promote cartilage regeneration and healthy joints.She has taken the medicine for the last three years and is convinced the medicine is the only reason she is able to work in her yard without her joints aching like they used to.The feature began with a description of how the product works and concluded with a discussion of its potential life-threatening side effects.She called her sister to tell her how the feature supported her belief in how good the drug was for joint pain.Due to ________,she did not remember the negative comments about Chondroitin.
A)information overload
B)selective attention
C)perceptual aggregation
D)selective retention
E)selective distortion

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Selective retention is the tendency of people to remember only those messages that are meaningful to them or are consistent with their beliefs or attitudes. In this case, the woman's belief in the effectiveness of Chondroitin led to her selectively retaining only the positive comments about the drug and not the potential side effects.

While Watching Entertainment Tonight,a Woman Noticed the Show Had a Feature