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.
Answer: A
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