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Title: What is a cognitive dissonance explanation for results found by Festinger and Carlsmith?
Post by: shofmannx20 on Oct 8, 2020

What is a cognitive dissonance explanation for results found by Festinger and Carlsmith?

◦ Subjects paid $1 to lie felt little cognitive dissonance.
◦ Subjects paid $20 to lie had sufficient justification for their counterattitudinal behaviour and experienced little dissonance.
◦ Subjects paid $1 to lie had sufficient justification for their counterattitudinal behaviour.
◦ Subjects paid $20 to lie felt high cognitive dissonance.

Title: What is a cognitive dissonance explanation for results found by Festinger and Carlsmith?
Post by: morganmarie791 on Oct 8, 2020

Subjects paid $20 to lie had sufficient justification for their counterattitudinal behaviour and experienced little dissonance.