Think back to Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) classic study on cognitive dissonance. As compared to participants who were paid $20 for doing a boring task, those participants who were paid $1 for doing the same task:

a) liked the task more.
b) liked the task less.
c) liked the task equally as much.
d) were less likely to tell their friends to do the task.


ANS: B

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