Question

Yuriko, a Japanese student, and Jill, an American student, have both participated in an experiment in which they were asked-and agreed-to write a counterattitudinal essay. According to findings on dissonance reduction across cultures by Sakai (1999), who is more likely to engage in dissonance reduction?

Answer 1

Yuriko and jill both

Explanation:

Leon Festinger has given the concept of cognitive dissonance. It is the concept of the discomfort of the feelings, beliefs, and behavior of the person. In this process, a person feels discomfort in the feelings that needs an alteration in the feelings emotions and behavior of a person so the person can reduce the discomfort.

For example when a person smoke and he does know that it is injurious to health then they are in the situation of cognitive dissonance.