Assume That You Were a Participant in the Experiment Conducted

question 99

Multiple Choice

Assume that you were a participant in the experiment conducted by Leon Festinger and J.Merrill Carlsmith (1959) in which participants were paid either a large or small sum of money to tell an innocent stranger that the boring,tedious task you had just completed was really enjoyable and very interesting.Further assume that you were paid a large amount of money to tell the stranger that lie.In this situation,you would be most likely to

• A)convince yourself that the boring task was actually more interesting than you had previously thought.
• B)maintain your original assessment of the task as dull and boring.
• C)convince yourself that the stranger deserved to be lied to.
• D)ask to complete the task again,given that you had high internal justification for doing so.

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Definitions:

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