Your friend Jamie shows you the gift she bought for her moth…
Your friend Jamie shows you the gift she bought for her mother’s birthday. It’s an atrociously ugly fake marble statue of an angel, with the saccharine words “My Mother’s an Angel” sloppily lettered on the bottom. Jamie asks you what you think, and because her feelings are easily hurt, to spare her, you say, “It’s wonderful! Maybe I’ll get one for my mom!” In this case, you ________ experience dissonance because there is sufficient ________ justification for your action.
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Based on research by Aronson and Carlsmith (1963) in which children were threatened with either mild or severe punishment for playing with a forbidden toy, which of the following situations would make a child most want to play with a toy?
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