Triggering cognitive dissonance with textual information and images: Data from three experiments with meat-eaters [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2023 This article presents data from three experiments in which we triggered and measured cognitive dissonance in meat-eaters. Cognitive dissonance is a well-established concept in the social psychology literature; however, empirical measures are scarce.
Nina Weingarten +3 more
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COVID-19 risk perception, cognitive dissonance, and vaccine hesitancy [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that despite having high risk for severe disease, some individuals had low-risk perception and consequently they refused vaccination.
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Navigating cognitive dissonance: master’s students’ experiences with ChatGPT in dissertation writing [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWith the increasing prevalence of AI tools like ChatGPT in academic settings, understanding their impact on students’ psychological experiences during dissertation writing is crucial.
Xiaobin Ren, Wenwen Zheng, Min Zhang
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On the Characteristics of the Cognitive Dissonance State: Exploration Within the Pleasure Arousal Dominance Model [PDF]
Psychologica Belgica, 2020 Little is actually known about the nature and characteristics of the cognitive dissonance state. In this paper, we review the actual knowledge and the main limitations of past studies.
Alexandre Bran, David C. Vaidis
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Increasing pro-environmental behavior in the home and work contexts through cognitive dissonance and autonomy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of this study was to develop a novel cognitive dissonance intervention founded on the action-based model for enhancing pro-environmental behavior.
Dominik Bentler +2 more
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The roles of cognitive dissonance and normative reasoning in attributions of minds to robots [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchAs a wide variety of intelligent technologies become part of everyday life, researchers have explored how people conceptualize agents that in some ways act and think like living things but are clearly machines.
Lewis J. Baker +7 more
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How does cognitive dissonance influence the sunk cost effect? [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2018 Shao-Hsi Chung,1 Kuo-Chih Cheng2 1Department of Business Administration, Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan; 2Department of Accounting, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan Background: The sunk cost effect is the scenario when
Chung SH, Cheng KC
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Respectable Challenges to Respectable Theory: Cognitive Dissonance Theory Requires Conceptualization Clarification and Operational Tools [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Despite its long tradition in social psychology, we consider that Cognitive Dissonance Theory presents serious flaws concerning its methodology which question the relevance of the theory, limit breakthroughs, and hinder the evaluation of its core ...
David C. Vaidis, Alexandre Bran
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Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2021 The objective of this paper is to describe the argumentative use of the expression "cognitive dissonance" on the social network Twitter. The descriptive approach which is developped here aims to report on the use of this lexeme in the context of ...
Leslie Pison
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Top-Down Influences on Local Networks: Basic Theory with Experimental Implications
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2013 The response of a population of sensory neurons to an external stimulus depends not only on the receptive field properties of the neurons, but also the level of arousal and attention or goal-oriented cognitive biases that guide information processing ...
Ramesh eSrinivasan +2 more
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