Participants in a Study Freely Engage in a Behaviour That

question 5

Multiple Choice

Participants in a study freely engage in a behaviour that is contrary to their attitudes.This behaviour causes an increase in physiological arousal,but the experimenter tells the participants that this arousal is the product of a placebo pill they have taken.Under these conditions,we would not expect the participants to change their attitudes to be more in line with their behaviour,a finding that is most consistent with ______________ theory.

• A) the theory of planned behaviour
• B) social identity theory
• C) self-justification
• D) cognitive dissonance

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