Leon Festinger and J

Multiple Choice

Leon Festinger and J.Merrill 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) most people will not lie regardless of the reward.
B) minimal external justification can lead to attitude change.
C) people often refuse to say in public what they privately believe.
D) attitude-discrepant acts will only change internal attitudes when there is little or no external justification.
E) when people experience dissonance, they work to justify their effort.