A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance / Leon Festinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Festinger, Leon, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward , and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its major assumptions stand in apparent opposition to cetain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for data with which other theories have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have been regarded as unrelated, and it is supported by the results of experiments designed specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Table of Contents

ONE An Introduction to the Theory of Dissonance

TWO The Consequences of Decisions: Theory

THREE The Consequences of Decisions: Data

FOUR The Effects of Farced Compliance: Theory

FIVE The Effects of Forced Compliance: Data

SIX Voluntary and Involuntary Exposure to Information: Theory

SEVEN Voluntary and Involuntary Exposure to Information: Data

EIGHT The Role of Social Support: Theory

NINE The Role of Social Support: Data on Influence Process

TEN The Role of Social Support: Data on Mass Phenomena

ELEVEN Recapitulation and Further Suggestions

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2076-X

OCLC:

1322124593