Leon Festinger and J.Merrill Carlsmith (1959)paid participants either $1 or $20 to tell someone else that a tedious,boring task was really interesting.Participants paid _______ modified their original attitudes because they had _______ for lying.

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Participants paid $1 modified their original attitudes because they had little external justification for lying. This is based on Festinger and Carlsmith's cognitive dissonance theory, where the $1 group experienced more dissonance because the small reward didn't justify the lie, leading them to change their attitudes to align with their actions.