Social Psychology 9th Edition by David Myers

Exercise 91

As noted in the textbook, at the beginning of the Iraq war only 38% of Americans said the war was justified even if Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. When no such weapons were found after the war, 58% of Americans then supported the war. Myers explains this revision of people's memories of the government's rationale for going to war as an example of
A) self-presentation.
B) cognitive dissonance.
C) self-justification.
D) self-perception.