PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Abortion-Rights Movements, Anti-Abortion Movements, Social Perception
5 Mar 2020
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Iv: excuse (choice vs. no choice, justification (high vs. low reward) If you have an excuse / justification it saves you from dissonance reduction. Magnitude of harm done (no one was hurt) experiment nel et al. Idea: if you didn"t hurt anyone it is like you didn"t do it. Wrote a counter-attitudinal essay in favor of legalizing marijuana. Dv: agreement with marijuana should be legalized". Results: high reward decided and undecided ( no attitude change, dissonance reduction: those with a low reward and given to undecided audience. Idea: maybe it doesn"t matter if the people you harm are unimportant. Method: replication of festinger"s boring task". People think they"ve been randomly assigned to do a person perception" task: person they"re perceiving = the person they"re going to have to lie to later on, person is either likeable or unlikeable. Ivs: liking for the victim (high v. low, harm done (victim is convinced v. unconvinced by lie)
