When we alter the meaning of messages so they become consistent with what we believe, we are practicing which selective process?
A) selective exposure
B) selective attention
C) selective interpretation
D) selective recall
E) selective organization

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Selective interpretation involves altering the meaning of messages to be consistent with our beliefs or values. Selective exposure refers to seeking information that is consistent with our existing beliefs, selective attention involves paying attention to information that supports our beliefs while ignoring information that contradicts them, selective recall is remembering information that reinforces our beliefs and forgetting information that challenges them, and selective organization is categorizing information in a way that supports our beliefs.

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