What Occurred in the Research by Balcetis and Dunning (2007)

question 139

Multiple Choice

What occurred in the research by Balcetis and Dunning (2007) in which participants were asked to walk across a college campus wearing an embarrassing costume?

• A) Students in the high-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the low-choice condition.
• B) Students in the low-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the high-choice condition.
• C) Students with insufficient justification for their embarrassing actions overestimated how far they had walked relative to those with sufficient justification.
• D) The motivation to reduce dissonance had no effect on participants' visual representations of the natural environment.

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