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Cognitive Dissonance
When a person's actions, commitments or beliefs do not fit together, the inconsistency can be uncomfortable and may motivate a change in attitude, behaviour or interpretation.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance
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- What it supports
- Attitudes differed after counter-attitudinal versus neutral writing, but the primary high-choice versus low-choice comparison was not significant and remained so across robustness checks.
- Where it may not transfer
- This is a constructive replication of one induced-compliance procedure rather than a direct repeat of every classic study. The null high-versus-low-choice result challenges a core paradigm but does not disprove every form of dissonance or attitude change.
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