A forced compliance paradigm was used to vary two levels of task experience and four levels of feedback about the results of Ss' counter-attitudinal task descriptions. Task-experience affected differential modes of dissonance-resolution following the description, but contrary to predictions, increasing information about effects of the counter-attitudinal descriptions failed to increase evidence of dissonance-resolution.
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