QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS

1		Cognitive dissonance is a distressing mental state. When did you last experience this aversive drive? Why might you have trouble answering that question?
2		The results of Festinger's famous $1/$20 experiment can be explained in a number of different ways. Which explanation do you find most satisfying?
3		Suppose you want your friends to change their sexist attitudes. What advice does the minimal justification hypothesis suggest?
4		I see cognitive dissonance theory as a "never-miss shot." What would it take to make the theory testable?