Cognitive Dissonance – Grasshoppers

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Original
attitude
Experimental
condition
Behavior
"Eat grasshoppers!?!
Yuk!"
Friendly
experimenter
' Eats
grasshoppers
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/
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"Eat grasshoppers!?!
Yuk!"
1
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.
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Unfriendly
experimenter
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,
^^.
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I
if
I
A
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No attitude
change:
"Eating grasshoppers is
disgusting!"
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"Dr. X was a
jerk, but 1
ate the
(grasshoppers
anyway."
Eats
»,i> '
(No conflict)
1
grasshoppers
1
"1 ate the grasshoppers to help
out Dr. X, who
was such a
nice guy."
IBBB
...
Cogn.t.ve
d.ssonance
Attitude
change:
-Ea1i
Qss.
hoppers rea||y
wasn't that
bad."