In the Lerner Experiment, in Which Subjects Observed the Experimenter

Multiple Choice

In the Lerner experiment, in which subjects observed the experimenter flipping a coin to decide which of two people would be rewarded for his work, it was later found that:

A) the nonrewarded person was seen as having engaged in the task for its own sake (dissonance effect)
B) the nonrewarded person was seen as having worked less on the task (blaming the victim)
C) the nonrewarded person was liked better than the rewarded one (compensation effect)
D) the rewarded person came to believe that he had worked harder on the task (self-fulfilling prophecy)