Desire to Participate in a Similar Experiment
The results from this question are shown in the last row of Table 1. This question is less directly related to the dissonance that was experimentally created for the 5s. Certainly, the more interesting and enjoyable they felt the tasks were, the greater would be their de- sire to participate in a similar experiment. But other factors would enter also. Hence, one would expect the results on this question to be very similar to the results on “how enjoy- able the tasks were” but weaker. Actually, the result, as may be seen in the table, are in exactly the same direction, and the magnitude of the mean differences is fully as large as on the first question. The variability is greater, however, and the differences do not yield high levels of statistical significance. The difference between the One Dollar condition (+1.20) and the Control condition (— .62) is significant at the .08 level (t = 1.78). The difference between the One Dollar condition and the Twenty Dollar condition (—.25) reaches only the .15 level of significance (t = 1.46).
