Jeanine has just been admitted to two colleges, college a and college b, both of which she would be equally interested in attending. after lots of internal conflict and confusion, she decides on college
a. after sending in her deposit to college a, she can't stop thinking about all the negative things about college b and how she knows she made the right decision not to go there. jeanine's original confusion is now resolved, reducing the dissonance she experienced.

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy