Publications
6 shownThe Return of the Repressed: Dissonance Theory Makes a Comeback
In 1957, Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance burst on the scene and revitalized social psychology with its deft blend of cognition and motivation. For the next two d...
Communicator credibility and communication discrepancy as determinants of opinion change.
The theory of cognitive dissonance suggests that opinion change is a function of a specific complex interaction between the credibility of the communicator and the discrepancy o...
The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group.
An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that persons who undergo an unpleasant initiation to become members of a group increase their liking for the group; that is, t...
The Jigsaw Classroom
In this chapter, Elliot Aronson describes the back story behind how he and his graduate student invented the jigsaw classroom, how it was born of necessity out of the interracia...
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Researcher Info
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- Publications
- 6
- Citations
- 4,849
- Institution
- The University of Texas at Austin
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