Celeste Worked and Voted for a Candidate That She Later

question 436

Multiple Choice

Celeste worked and voted for a candidate that she later discovered was dishonest and immoral. These facts made Celeste very uncomfortable because these were attributes that she does not admire. Celeste's feelings can best be explained by the

• A)frustration-aggression hypothesis.
• B)fundamental attribution theory.
• C)theory of groupthink.
• D)cognitive dissonance theory.

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Definitions:

Interaction Effect

A phenomenon in statistics where the effect of one independent variable on a dependent variable differs depending on the level of another independent variable.

Main Effect

The direct influence of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experimental design.

Simple Effect

The effect of one variable at a specific level of another variable in a factorial experiment.

Interaction Effect

In statistics, the effect that exists when two or more variables combine to affect the outcome of a dependent variable in a way that cannot be simply added.