Round 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 formed friendships based on “functional distance” in the “propinquity effect.” Elliot Aronson’s work on (*) “self-concept” built on this psychologist’s experiments with J. M. Carlsmith. With two students, this originator of social comparison theory (10[1])covertly observed that Dorothy Martin doubled down when aliens from the planet Clarion did not flood the Earth. For 10 points, what social psychologist was the lead author of When Prophecy Fails and coined the term “cognitive dissonance”? ■END■ (10[1])

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