Author Question: According to the authors of your text, what is one major danger of engaging in self-justification ... (Read 56 times)

penza · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

According to the authors of your text, what is one major danger of engaging in self-justification strategies?

a. We experience cognitive dissonance.
b. We will have lower self-esteem.
c. We can end up becoming prejudiced.
d. We can fail to learn from our mistakes.

Question 2

Participants in an experiment conducted by Davis and Jones (1960) were instructed to provide hurtful feedback to another person (actually a confederate, of course).

After providing such mean assessments of his performance, participants then evaluated him privately. After providing this criticism, these participants' evaluations of the confederate were more ________ because the ________.
a. positive; participants regretted having hurt an innocent victim
b. negative; participants convinced themselves that the victim deserved it
c. negative; victim did not stand up for himself after the insults
d. positive; participants wanted to assuage their feelings of guilt