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Originally Posted by Disco King

That's probably true. There's evidence in psychology that people often make inferences about their own attitudes and motivations based on their behaviour, in a similar fashion to the way we make inferences about others' behaviours from their external behaviour.

I can't remember the term (Reprise to thread). There was one experiment where they had two groups complete some task, one group being compensated monetarily, the other not. The group that was not given money rated their enjoyment of the task as higher, probably because they reasoned "if I did it for free, I must have liked it.

The way I remember it is one group got $1 and one got $20 for doing some boring task, like sorting or data entry or something. They had to then tell the next participant that they liked the activity. Then they were questioned about how the felt about lying. The $20 people were like welp I just lied for the money. The others rationalized that they did actually like the activity.

here's a summary, we were both sorta right: http://www.intropsych.com/ch15_socia...issonance.html

people do a lot to assuage cognitive dissonance but i don't think that's where you were trying to go. something like backwards inference