Recall That Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) Paid Participants Either $1

Multiple Choice

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