Author Question: Recall that Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) paid participants either 1 or 20 to tell another person ... (Read 106 times)

karlynnae · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Recall that Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) paid participants either 1 or 20 to tell another person that a boring, tedious task was really fun and interesting. The results of their experiment demonstrated that

a. minimal external justification can lead to attitude change.
b. when people experience dissonance, they work to justify their effort.
c. the decision to engage in attitude-discrepant acts must be voluntary.
d. people often refuse to say in public what they privately believe.

Question 2

Assume that you were a participant in the experiment conducted by Festinger and 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.