Cognitive dissonance ≈ Cognitive dissonance
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An introduction to cognitive dissonance theory and an overview of current perspectives on the theory. Open
This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.
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Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning Open
Collective trauma is a cataclysmic event that shatters the basic fabric of society. Aside from the horrific loss of life, collective trauma is also a crisis of meaning. The current paper systematically delineates the process that begins wi…
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Resolving the Meat-Paradox: A Motivational Account of Morally Troublesome Behavior and Its Maintenance Open
A majority of people the world over eat meat, yet many of these same people experience discomfort when the meat on their plate is linked to the death of animals. We draw on this common form of moral conflict—the meat-paradox—to develop ins…
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A Systematic Review of Public Attitudes, Perceptions and Behaviours Towards Production Diseases Associated with Farm Animal Welfare Open
Increased productivity may have negative impacts on farm animal welfare (FAW) in modern animal production systems. Efficiency gains in production are primarily thought to be due to the intensification of production, and this has been assoc…
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Can Social Contact Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria Open
Can positive social contact between members of antagonistic groups reduce prejudice and discrimination? Despite extensive research on social contact, observational studies are difficult to interpret because prejudiced people may select out…
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Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the Politics of Emotion1 Open
International relations scholars are increasingly paying attention to "the emotional" as a way to understand global politics. What is often missing from these conversations is feminist knowledge on affect, and also discussions about method…
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How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder Open
Purpose For over two decades, we have known that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are underserved. We have also known that DLD does not attract the research attention that it merits given its prevalence and impact. The p…
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Factors that affect the outcomes of root canal treatment and retreatment—A reframing of the principles Open
This paper undertakes a broad and comprehensive synthesis of relevant clinical, biological, biomechanical, technical and healthcare services data to understand the factors affecting outcomes of periapical healing after root canal (re)treat…
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An Investigation of First-Year Students' and Lecturers' Expectations of University Education Open
Transition from school to university can cause concern for many students. One issue is the gap between students' prior expectations and the realities of university life, which can cause significant distress, poor academic performance and i…
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Toward a general psychological model of tension and suspense Open
Tension and suspense are powerful emotional experiences that occur in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., in music, film, literature, and everyday life). The omnipresence of tension and suspense suggests that they build on very basic cogniti…
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Professional Dissonance and Burnout in Primary Care Open
In sharing their perspectives on factors contributing to burnout, frontline PCPs interviewed during this study described dissonance between their professional values and the realities of primary care practice, an authority-responsibility m…
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Intergroup Contact as an Agent of Cognitive Liberalization Open
Intergroup contact is widely recognized as one of the most validated methods of improving attitudes toward out-groups. Yet what is intergroup contact “good for” beyond this function? To answer this question we take a panoramic view of the …
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Young people learning from digital media outside of school: The informal meets the formal Open
The dissonance between what teenagers learn in classrooms and their everyday lives is not a recent phenomenon, but it is increasingly relevant as school systems are unable to follow the evolution of media and society beyond traditional con…
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Flying in the face of environmental concern: why green consumers continue to fly Open
Some unsustainable consumer behaviours have proved extremely hard to change or even challenge. Despite the fact that flying can be more damaging than any other activity that an individual can undertake, many otherwise green consumers still…
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Latina/o Adolescents' Funds of Knowledge Related to Engineering Open
Background According to a growing body of research, many Latinas/os experience dissonance between their everyday cultural practices and the cultural practices prevalent in engineering. This dissonance contributes to many Latinas/os' sense …
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New Fathers’ Perinatal Depression and Anxiety—Treatment Options: An Integrative Review Open
More than 10% of fathers experience depression and anxiety during the perinatal period, but paternal perinatal depression (PPND) and anxiety have received less attention than maternal perinatal mental health problems. Few mainstream treatm…
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‘Embrace the masculine; attenuate the feminine’ – gender, identity work and entrepreneurial legitimation in the nascent context Open
This article critically analyses how gender bias impacts upon women’s efforts to legitimate nascent ventures. Given the importance of founder identity as a proxy for entrepreneurial legitimacy at nascency, we explore the identity work wome…
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Cognitive Dissonance in Technology Adoption: A Study of Smart Home Users Open
This study aims to address a research gap related to the outcomes of the use of technology when the performance falls short of initial expectations, and the coping mechanisms that users may deploy in such circumstances. By adopting Cogniti…
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Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: the case of functional upgrading and downgrading Open
This article examines various upgrading and downgrading repositioning firm strategies within global value chains (GVCs) or global production networks (GPNs). It builds upon recent evidence that the mode of governance could vary profoundly …
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From attitude to satisfaction: introducing the travel mode choice cycle Open
Many studies analysing the relationship between attitudes and travel behaviour have found that travel attitudes have an important impact on travel mode choice. More recently, studies focusing on how people experience travel have shown that…
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Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World Open
Ever since Rachel Carson predicted a “silent spring” environmentalists have been carefully and anxiously listening to birds. More recently the musician and scientist Bernie Krause has examined the effects of human activity on avian soundsc…
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Cognitive Dissonance: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going Open
Cognitive dissonance has been one of the most enduring and successful theories in the history of social psychology. This paper examines the origins of the theory and the controversies it engendered. I then examine the evolution of dissonan…
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Applying Social Psychology to Prevent Careless Responding during Online Surveys Open
A major threat to data quality in online surveys is careless responding (CR; Meade & Craig, ) or insufficient effort responding (e.g. Bowling, Huang, Bragg, Khazon, Liu, & Blackmore, ). In three studies, we use social psychological theorie…
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Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences Open
Adding rainbow filters in support of LGBTQ+ movements or changing profile pictures to black squares to show support for the BlackLivesMatter movement have become common contemporary expressions of solidarity. However, these actions are oft…
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Time to #Protest: Selective Exposure, Cascading Activation, and Framing in Social Media Open
In social media, sharing posts exposes a larger number of users to the preferred content of their peers. As users select or discard content, they collectively highlight facets of events or issues as to promote a particular interpretation. …
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The Attitudinal Entropy (AE) Framework as a General Theory of Individual Attitudes Open
This article introduces the Attitudinal Entropy (AE) framework, which builds on the Causal Attitude Network model that conceptualizes attitudes as Ising networks. The AE framework rests on three propositions. First, attitude inconsistency …
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Explaining Symptoms in Systemic Therapy. Does Triadic Thinking Come Into Play? Open
The main aim of this study is to explore the breadth of the inference field and the type of etiopathogenetic contents of symptom explanations provided by the client and therapist in the first two psychotherapy sessions conducted using a sy…
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When sustainability backfires: A review on the unintended negative side‐effects of product and service sustainability on consumer behavior Open
The existential need for more sustainable production and consumption has attracted substantial scholarly interest, which has focused on the positive outcomes of corporate sustainability. Negative side‐effects have been largely neglected. T…
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Clinician-led, peer-led, and internet-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Acute effectiveness of these delivery modalities. Open
The evidence that all 3 dissonance-based prevention programs outperformed an educational video condition, that both group-based interventions outperformed the Internet-based intervention in risk factor reductions, and that the peer-led gro…
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New Technologies Smart, or Harm Work-Family Boundaries Management? Gender Differences in Conflict and Enrichment Using the JD-R Theory Open
Background: The relationship between technology-assisted supplemental work and well-being outcomes is a recent issue in scientific literature. Whether the use of technology for work purpose in off-work time may have a positive or negative …