Your best friend has joined a cult called "The Fellowship of Feeling." He had to spend a month in a set of increasingly severe hazing rituals;
pay an $8,000 membership fee; and go along to watch older members find homeless people to harass and beat up. Your friend loves this group and keeps urging you to join. What principle of dissonance is likely operating on your friend?
a. the justification of effort
b. low self-esteem
c. hypocrisy induction
d. insufficient justification
Answer: A
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What will be an ideal response?
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