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And so, rewarding children has a danger,
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which is if you give them too much reward and too much a value for
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what they're doing they will denigrate the activity.
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Now, we need to be careful here about what's going on.
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It's not simple inconsistency.
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So, go back to this insufficient justification effect.
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So, the dollar group rated a task as more fun than the twenty dollar group.
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And it's true; each group needed a justification for lying about the task.
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Each group needed a justification for saying how interesting the task was,
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but they each had a justification. They were each doing it for money after all.
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So, cognitive dissonance is a little bit more subtle.
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It's not just that there's a clash.