Because Marla was so strongly committed to a fat-free diet,she did not bother to read a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that some fat in our diet is healthy.The report was in a newspaper that Marla reads daily,but the headline did not appeal to her as the result of
A)selective retention.
B)selective comprehension.
C)selective exposure.
D)selective perception.
E)stimulus discrimination.

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Selective exposure is the tendency to pay attention to messages consistent with one's attitudes and beliefs,and to ignore messages that are inconsistent with them.

Because Marla Was So Strongly Committed to a Fat-Free Diet,she