Packet 5: Tossup 14

This psychologist and Elaine Walster found that smokers were more susceptible to overheard communication that claimed no link between cancer and smoking. This psychologist’s late-career turn to archaeology is the basis of the book The Human Legacy. This psychologist led a study that found MIT students assigned to random housing (15[2])formed friendships based on “functional distance” in the “propinquity (15[2]-5[1])effect.” (15[2])Elliot Aronson’s work on (*) “self-concept” built on this psychologist’s experiments with (-5[1])J. M. Carlsmith. With (10[1])two students, this originator of social comparison theory (10[1])covertly observed that (-5[1])Dorothy Martin (-5[1])doubled down (10[2])when aliens from the planet Clarion (10[2])did (10[1])not (10[4])flood (10[1])the Earth. (10[1])For (10[2])10 points, (10[2])what social psychologist (10[1])was the lead (10[2])author of When Prophecy (10[1])Fails and coined (-5[1])the term “cognitive dissonance”? ■END■ (10[6]0[7])

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