All of the Following Are Necessary Conditions for Cognitive Dissonance

question 12

Multiple Choice

All of the following are necessary conditions for cognitive dissonance specified by Cooper and Fazio (1984) except

• A) people must freely choose to engage in the attitude-discrepant behavior.
• B) people must assign responsibility for the behavior to an outside source.
• C) people must experience physiological arousal as a result of their behavior.
• D) people must attribute their arousal to the attitude-discrepant behavior.

Recognize the existence and characteristics of negative-sum games and the incentives for players.

Identify the conditions under which Nash equilibrium occurs in game theory.

Understand how repeated and sequential games differ and their implications for game strategies.

Analyze the role of credible threats in achieving a Nash equilibrium in repeated games.

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