Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practice safe sex. The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped. Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

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The finding is consistent with cognitive dissonance, as the students who advocated for safe sex in their speeches may have experienced dissonance if their behavior did not align with their message, leading them to change their behavior to reduce the dissonance.

Your Text Describes a Study in Which Researchers Recruited Single