In Leon Festinger and Merrill Carlsmith’s experiment, the participants who were paid only $1 for doing a very boring task
believed that the task really was boring.
convinced themselves that the task was interesting.
became angry that they received only $1.
returned the dollar 50 percent of the time after learning that other participants received $20.
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