1. Print the learning
objectives for chapter four from the publisher's web site.
2. Read and study chapter
four.
3. Class Discussion:
Cognitive Dissonance This
site defines dissonance as an "unpleasant state of tension" and states
that
individuals will try
to relieve this dissonance in one of two ways.
Which of the two methods
of relieving dissonance have you used in the past?
Describe the situation.
If you were a subject
in the original Festinger and Carlsmith 1959 study, do you think that you
would have lied for $1?
If not, would you have
for $20?
Explain.
