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burton19126

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Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) performed a famous experiment on cognitive dissonance in which subjects were asked to lie to a fellow student (about how fun a psychology experiment was) for either 1 or 20 . For subjects in the 1 condition, dissonance was created because these subjects thought to themselves: I am a nice, ethical person, but I have just been mean and told a lie. It appears that the 1 subjects were ultimately able to reduce this dissonance by thinking to themselves: ____.
 
  a. I did not really tell a lie because the experiment was not that boring. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think that it was kind of fun
  b. I know I told that person a lie. But so what? There are bigger problems in this world
  c. Lying is a terrible thing. I swear that I will never do it again.
  d. Whatever I got 1 for doing almost nothing Good deal

Question 2

Greg is in love with Bill, but Bill is not in love with Greg. Clearly, then, this is a case of ____.
 
  a. eponymous love
  b. anonymous love
  c. unrequited love
  d. unrivalled love



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kiamars2010

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C




burton19126

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!


samiel-sayed

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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