Author Question: Your friend wears bell-bottoms constantly, a behavior that offends your sense of style. If you ... (Read 72 times)

rosent76 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Your friend wears bell-bottoms constantly, a behavior that offends your sense of style. If you wanted to apply cognitive dissonance theory to get your friend to change her attitude toward bell-bottoms,

you should encourage her to give a public speech ________ under conditions of ________ external justification.
a. against bell-bottoms; low
b. in favor of bell-bottoms; low
c. against bell-bottoms; high
d. in favor of bell-bottoms; high

Question 2

Attitudes are of course an individual internal phenomenon, yet they are of tremendous interest to social psychologists. Why?

a. Many attitudes are shared by groups of people.
b. Attitude change is often due to social influence.
c. Attitude change is often self-serving.
d. Attitudes are the most powerful predictor of social behaviors.