In an experiment conducted by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959),participants had to perform a boring task and were paid either $1 or $20 to tell the next participant that the task was interesting.The results of the experiment demonstrated that
A) those who received $20 saw the task as more enjoyable than those who received $1.
B) those who received $1 saw the task as more enjoyable than those who received $20.
C) participants were not likely to tell the lie regardless of the payment.
D) even though participants told the next participant that they enjoyed the task, later they confessed that they had not enjoyed the task, regardless of how much they were paid.

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Festinger and Carlsmith found that participants who were paid $1 to lie about the task being interesting actually rated the task as more enjoyable than those who were paid $20. This is because those who received the higher payment experienced dissonance between their attitude towards the task and their behavior of lying about it. In order to reduce this dissonance, they had to convince themselves that the task was not actually enjoyable, while those who received the lower payment did not experience as much dissonance and therefore did not need to change their attitudes towards the task.

In an Experiment Conducted by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959),participants Had