Participants in a Study Freely Engage in a Behaviour That

question 15

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) self-justification
• C) social identity theory
• D) cognitive dissonance

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