Cognitive Dissonance and Choice Support of Bias

Cognitive dissonance can also lead to something called choice support of bias. This is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option that you've selected or to demote the foregone option. A man visited playgrounds to spy on prepubescent boys made a list of the 50 he liked best and then asked their parents if he could steal them away for three weeks in Oklahoma. The first boys gave themselves the macho name of the Rattlers and started crying about establishing group rules.