Lewis has agreed to proofread a long legal brief that Trudy has written, even though he doesn't really like Trudy. Lewis knows that he will not receive any additional pay for his extra work, and he thinks that proofreading is one of the most boring jobs there is. However, after the legal brief is finished, Lewis decides that proofreading isn't such a bad job after all; he feels that at times he
actually enjoyed the exacting work. The change in attitude that Lewis has experienced can BEST be explained using
a. the matching hypothesis.
b. a self-serving bias.
c. cognitive dissonance theory.
d. the fundamental attribution error.
C
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