In Festinger and Carlsmith's classic cognitive dissonance experiment,dissonance arises because the participant,having completed the behavior s/he's been induced to perform,feels he has ________ the behavior in the ________ condition,compared to the ________ condition.

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In Festinger and Carlsmith's classic cognitive dissonance experiment, participants were induced to perform a boring task for an hour and then were either paid $1 or $20 to tell the next participant that the task was interesting and enjoyable. Since the task was actually boring, the participants in the $1 condition had insufficient justification to warrant lying and convincing the next participant that the task was enjoyable. Thus, they experienced dissonance and felt that they had lied for no good reason. On the other hand, participants in the $20 condition felt external justification for lying since they were paid a large sum of money to do so. Therefore, they did not experience dissonance.

In Festinger and Carlsmith's Classic Cognitive Dissonance Experiment,dissonance Arises Because