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An experiment to determine the relationship between levels of cigarette smoking, persuasive communication, and attitude change showed outcomes quite different from those predicted by theories of cognitive dissonance: attitude change was significantly affected by the magnitude of persuasive communication, but con sumption of cigarettes did not appreciably affect attitude change.
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Edwin C. Hackleman (1973) studied this question.
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