Multiple Choice
Recall that Leon Festinger and J.Merrill Carlsmith (1959) paid participants either $1 or $20 to tell someone else that a tedious,boring task was really interesting.Participants paid ____ modified their original attitudes because they had ____ for lying.
A) $20; minimal external justification
B) $1; little external justification
C) $20; an abundance of external justification
D) $1; little internal justification
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