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 (10[1])two students, this originator of social comparison theory covertly observed that Dorothy Martin doubled down when aliens from the planet Clarion did not (10[1])flood the Earth. For 10 points, what social psychologist was the lead author of When Prophecy (10[1])Fails and coined the term “cognitive dissonance”? ■END■

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