Psychology Researchers Approached People Who Were Standing in Line to Bet

question 135

Multiple Choice

Psychology researchers approached people who were standing in line to bet on a horse race,and they asked each person which horse he or she planned to bet on and why.Another researcher asked those people the same questions after they had placed the bet but before the race had begun.Given your knowledge of social psychology,you could predict that after placing the bet,people would be _____ about their chosen horse because of _____.

• A) more positive; postdecisional dissonance
• B) less positive; attributional bias
• C) more positive; buyer's remorse
• D) less positive; sunk cost fallacy

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