In Festinger's classic experiment, the college students who originally said the task was boring but changed their attitude about the boring task and said "it was interesting" were the ones that

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In Festinger's classic experiment on cognitive dissonance, the college students who were paid $1 to lie about the boring task were more likely to change their attitude and say it was interesting. This is because the lower amount of money ($1) was not enough to justify their lying, leading them to change their attitude to reduce the dissonance between their actions and beliefs. Those paid $20 had an external justification for their lie, so they felt less need to change their internal attitudes.

In Festinger's Classic Experiment, the College Students Who Originally Said