The correct answer is cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance (CD) refers to a state or situation in which a person experiences feelings of discomfort that results from holding two contradictory thoughts, attitudes or beliefs. An instance of cognitive dissonance is the feeling a long-term smoker experiences when he reads an article about an increasing number of deaths due to lung cancer which is heavily caused by smoking.
Innovator is the correct answer.
The sociologist Robert Merton would classify Annie Duke as an innovator. According to him, there are five types of deviant behavior based on different criteria which innovation is one of them. <u>An innovator desires the same goals as the rest of the people from his/her community (such as, money and goods), but rejects the traditional or legitimate ways of pursuing those.</u>
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