Cognitive Dissonance
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Severe severe psychological repulsion reaction in patient with PAD resulted in natural lower extremity mummification.

30 Jul 2009 This case report describes the very uncommon event of mummification of the lower limb occurring naturally in a patient with peripheral arterial occlusive disease aggravated by severe reactive aversion and serves as a warning that this can happen in ... Read more...

Counteracting ambivalence: nurses who smoke and their health promotion role with patients who smoke.

30 Jul 2009 Morbidity and mortality associated with smoking are major health problems. Nurses play an instrumental role in tobacco reduction, but their own smoking often interferes with this clinical opportunity. We conducted a grounded theory study with 23 ... Read more...

Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information.

29 Jun 2009 A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation to attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in situations that provided choices between congenial ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Dissonance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Severe severe psychological repulsion reaction in patient with PAD resulted in natural lower extremity mummification. 30 Jul 2009
• Counteracting ambivalence: nurses who smoke and their health promotion role with patients who smoke. 30 Jul 2009
• Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information. 29 Jun 2009
• Youth Internet use: risks and opportunities. 29 Jun 2009
• Negative affect and drinking drivers: a review and conceptual model linking dissonance, efficacy and negative affect to risk and motivation for change. 29 Apr 2009
• Investigating adaptive grieving styles: a Delphi study. 29 Apr 2009
• Language interpreting as social justice work: perspectives of formal and informal healthcare interpreters. 30 Mar 2009
• Cognitive dissonance towards the smoking habit among nursing and physiotherapy students at the University of Balearic Islands in Spain. 27 Feb 2009
• The agony of ambivalence and ways to resolve it: introducing the MAID model. 30 Jan 2009
• A practitioner's guide to persuasion: an overview of 15 selected persuasion theories, models and frameworks. 8 Jan 2009
• Desire or reason: predicting health behaviors from affective and cognitive attitudes. 30 Dec 2008
• Preventing eating disorders. 30 Dec 2008
• A painful reminder: the role of level and salience of attitude importance in cognitive dissonance. 30 Dec 2008
• What we regret most are lost opportunities: a theory of regret intensity. 17 Dec 2008
• General and program-specific moderators of two eating disorder prevention programs. 30 Oct 2008
• Effects of a cognitive dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program are similar for Asian American, Hispanic, and White participants. 30 Oct 2008
• In support of Bleuler: objective evidence for increased affective ambivalence in schizophrenia based upon evocative testing. 20 Oct 2008
• Effects of past transgressions in an induced hypocrisy paradigm. 29 Sep 2008
• It is a threat, but is it dissonance? Comments on Gire and Williams (2007). 29 Sep 2008
• Effects of being a peer-leader in an eating disorder prevention program: can we further reduce eating disorder risk factors? 29 Sep 2008

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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