According to Research by Balcetis and Dunning (2007) in Which

question 24

Multiple Choice

According to research by Balcetis and Dunning (2007) in which participants were asked to walk across a college campus wearing an embarrassing costume, which of the following is true?

• 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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