In her social psychology course, Molly learns that the more…

In her social psychology course, Molly learns that the more one is exposed to something, such as a song on the radio, the more one tends to like it. Molly thinks this is obvious and questions why she signed up for the class. What might Molly be displaying?

As they walked down the street, participants (who were unawa…

As they walked down the street, participants (who were unaware they were part of a study) were approached by a confederate posing as a panhandler (a person who begs for money). The confederate asked the participant either for 75 cents or for whatever change he or she had handy. The researchers compared how much money participants gave across these two conditions. This is best characterized as which type of research design?

In a variation on Festinger’s classic study on induced compl…

In a variation on Festinger’s classic study on induced compliance, participants are asked to tell a confederate that a very boring task is in fact quite fun, but the confederate does not appear to be deceived by this lie. Under these circumstances, participants do not show the typical cognitive dissonance effect, which suggests that inconsistency only produces dissonance if