Research by Aronson and Carl smith (1963) shows that severe punishment
a. is less likely than mild punishment to inspire cognitive dissonance.
b. leads to attitude change only when a self-affirmation is possible.
c. causes dissonance-induced physiological arousal to increase.
d. changes behavior only when attitudes change as well.
a
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