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 Marla as a the result of
A)selective retention.
B)selective comprehension.
C)selective exposure.
D)selective perception.
E)stimulus discrimination.

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Marla did not expose herself to the information presented in the newspaper because the headline did not appeal to her beliefs about a fat-free diet. This is an example of selective exposure.

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