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the united states has been involved in a series of wars, from korea through iraq, in which a large majority of the people concluded that the war had been a mistake, whereas the leaders who sent the country to war became ever more convinced of its necessity. regardless of the actual merits of the war, what psychological concept could explain, in part, the tenacity of the leaders?
a.groupthink in decision making
b.postdecisional dissonance
c.frustration-aggression hypothesis
d.cognitive dissonance
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