In a situation in which you have put a high degree of effort into attaining a goal that you then come to feel may not have been worth all of the effort,according to cognitive dissonance theory,you are most likely to

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According to cognitive dissonance theory, when we experience a conflict between our attitudes and behaviors, we are motivated to reduce the dissonance by changing our attitudes or behaviors. In this situation, if we feel that the goal we worked hard to attain was not worth the effort, we may experience dissonance between our attitude toward the goal (i.e., that it was valuable) and our behavior (i.e., putting in a lot of effort to attain it). To reduce the dissonance, we may change our attitude toward the goal and convince ourselves that it was, in fact, worth the effort. This is known as attitude change through cognitive dissonance.

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