Cognitive Dissonance: Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance

http://www.all-about-psychology.com/cognitive_dissonance.html This robust theory suggests that a motivational state of inner tension is triggered by logically inconsistent ways of thinking.

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith was the first of numerous studies to corroborate the theory of cognitive dissonance. The premiss for this classic piece of research was to test what happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion.

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This robust theory suggests that a motivational state of inner tension is triggered by logically inconsistent ways of thinking.

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith was the first of numerous studies to corroborate the theory of cognitive dissonance. The premiss for this classic piece of research was to test what happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion.

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