In a Situation in Which You Have Put a High

question 31

Multiple Choice

In a situation in which you have put a high degree of effort into attaining a goal that you then come to feel may not have been worth all of the effort,according to cognitive dissonance theory,you are most likely to

• A) reevaluate the amount of effort you put in, and judge it to be less than it really was
• B) reevaluate the goal you attained, and convince yourself it was, in fact, worth it
• C) decide to put less effort into attaining goals in the future
• D) decide to put in no effort into your next activity

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