Assume that you were a participant in the experiment conducted by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) in which participants were paid either a large or small sum of money to tell an innocent stranger that the boring, tedious task they had just completed was really enjoyable and very interesting. Further assume that you were paid a large amount of money to tell the stranger that lie. In this situation, you would be most likely to __________.
A. convince yourself that the boring task was actually more interesting than you had previously thought.
B. maintain your original assessment of the task as dull and boring.
C. convince yourself that the stranger deserved to be lied to.
D. ask to complete the task again, given that you had high internal justification for doing so.

In the experiment Festinger and Carlsmith asked the participants to do a dull task. They were not paid anything or paid 1 dollar or 20 dollars. The participants who were in the control group were not given any motivation. Whereas the other groups were told that the work was going to be exciting and to tell it to the other participants also

The people who were paid 1 dollar thought of the task enjoyable. Most people were not paid or paid 20 dollars. They thought that the task was dull and boring.

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Answer:B-Maintain your original assessment of the task as dull and boring

Explanation:

It is given that the task is boring and dull and you have to convince others that the task is enjoyable and very interesting.

You as a participant must convince others to believe that the job is enjoyable and fancy but not yourself as the job is boring and you are doing the task only because you were paid a high amount of money to tell the lies to people.

You should maintain the original assessment of the task as dull and boring.