Assume that you are part of a student group trying to persuade others to recycle more. You plan to go door-to-door in residence halls and to use cognitive dissonance to change recycling behaviors. How would you do this, and why would your strategy work?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: You would first generate cognitive dissonance by simultaneously asking people about their attitudes toward recycling and by reminding them of the times that they failed to recycle cans or paper. Assuming that respondents hold positive recycling attitudes, but have on occasion failed to recycle, they will experience dissonance if they perceive this discrepancy as hypocrisy. To reduce the dissonance, they will be likely to change their behaviors to comply with their attitudes.
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