At a Race Track, Researchers Asked People Placing Bets on Horses

question 94

Multiple Choice

At a race track, researchers asked people placing bets on horses about how confident they were in their chosen horse.They asked some people before they had placed their bets and others they asked after they had placed their bets but before the race had begun.Given your knowledge of social psychology, you could predict that after placing the bets, people would be confident about their chosen horses because of .

• A)more; postdecisional dissonance
• B)less; postdecisional dissonance
• C)more; insufficient justification
• D)less; insufficient justification

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