Table 2. Mean and (standard deviation) for attitude towards the proposal and emotions across step 1–3 in Experiment 2.

	Step 1 1 week before dissonance induction	Step 2 Immediately after dissonance induction	Step 3 1 week after the dissonance induction
Attitude	.58 (.92)	1.33 (1.74)	1.25 (1.70)
Positive emotions	3.25 (1.31)	1.63 (1.32)	2.81 (1.28)
Negative emotions	1.58 (1.16)	2.08 (1.34)	1.22 (1.04)

Attitude scale ranged from 0 (Completely disagree) to 7(Completely agree).

Emotion scale ranged from 0 (Not at all) to 7 (Very much).