Cognitive Dissonance - Research News and Information

Monday, September 08, 2008

Music in minor activates limbic structures: a relationship with dissonance?

7 May 2008 Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we contrasted major and minor mode melodies controlled for liking to study the neural basis of musical mode perception. To examine the influence of the larger dissonance in... Read more...

Biased information search in homogeneous groups: confidence as a moderator for the effect of anticipated task requirements.

May 2008 When searching for information, groups that are homogeneous regarding their members' prediscussion decision preferences show a strong bias for information that supports rather than conflicts with the prevailing opinion... Read more...

Effectiveness of peer-led eating disorders prevention: a replication trial.

Apr 2008 The aim of this study was to replicate and extend results of a previous trial that investigated the effectiveness of 2 peer-led eating disorders prevention interventions in reducing eating disorder risk factors in... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Dissonance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Twenty-five years of therapeutic misconception. 7 May 2008
• Music in minor activates limbic structures: a relationship with dissonance? 7 May 2008
• What pharmacy benefit designers need to know about perception and reality: never forget the elephant in the pharmacy. May 2008
• Biased information search in homogeneous groups: confidence as a moderator for the effect of anticipated task requirements. May 2008
• Effectiveness of peer-led eating disorders prevention: a replication trial. Apr 2008
• Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: long-term effects from a randomized efficacy trial. Apr 2008
• Self-esteem differences in the effects of hypocrisy induction on behavioral intentions in the health domain. Apr 2008
• Left frontal cortical activation and spreading of alternatives: tests of the action-based model of dissonance. 2008
• Acculturative dissonance, ethnic identity, and youth violence. 2008
• Using cognitive dissonance to induce adolescents' escaping from the claw of online gaming: the roles of personal responsibility and justification of cost. Oct 2007
• Dissonance and the honor system: extending the severity of threat phenomenon. Oct 2007
• Cognitive dissonance and the perception of natural environments. 29 Sep 2007
• Elderly people's attitudes and perceptions of aging and old age: the role of cognitive dissonance? 29 Jun 2007
• [Introduction of emotional labour into oncology] Jun 2007
• Smiling when distressed: when a smile is a frown turned upside down. 6 May 2007
• Intrapersonal conflict in goals and values of patients with unipolar depression. 10 Apr 2007
• An outcome-based action study on changes in fitness, blood lipids, and exercise adherence, using the disconnected values (intervention) model. 2007
• Innovative interventions for disordered eating: evaluating dissonance-based and yoga interventions. 6 Nov 2006
• Physiological and cognitive effects of expressive dissonance. 17 Oct 2006
• Denial of responsibility: a new mode of dissonance reduction. 31 May 2006

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Technical information about 'Cognitive Dissonance'

Definition: Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a cognition and behavior; e.g., smoking enjoyment and believing smoking is harmful are dissonant.

Descriptor UI: D003073

Alternative terms: Cognitive Dissonance; Cognitive Dissonances; Dissonance, Cognitive; Dissonances, Cognitive;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.305;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: no qualif