forward a more persuasive argument, that the experiment really was interesting and that her friend was wrong.
Having done this, the interviewer from the university arrived and asked subjects a few questions to check up on how The results experiments showed were being that, on conducted With their experiment average, in the uniFestinger and Carlsmith subjects v e r s i t y. laid the foundations of in the Subjects cognitive dissonance $1 group were asked theory. respondfour quesed positions, one tively to the of which was question of in regards to if they thought how interesting the experiment the tasks they had was interesting and to do were. Festinger enjoyable. The $20 dollar and Carlsmith were very group however, showed very little careful, and used the interview as difference in relation to the control an opportunity to weed out any group in their reports of how enjoysubjects who were suspicious at able they found the experiment. having to inform the girl that the To sum up, when subjects were experiment was interesting. The induced via a small reward to say data of five subjects was removed something that conflicted with their after they indicated they were susprivate opinion, this private opinion picious as to the real nature of the changed to correspond more closeexperiment, and additionally the ly with what the subject had been data from six more subjects was 23
removed for various other reasons. This left a pool of sixty to be analyzed, twenty from each group (a control group who never were asked to talk to the arriving student but were still interviewed, the $1 group and the $20 group).