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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Investigating adaptive grieving styles: a Delphi study.

29 Apr 2009 There has been an evolution in the understanding of the nature of grief since S. Freud's initial work, Mourning and Melancholia (1917/1953). Mental health practitioners and researchers have established new models to aid in the conceptualization and ... Read more...

Cognitive dissonance towards the smoking habit among nursing and physiotherapy students at the University of Balearic Islands in Spain.

27 Feb 2009 AIM: To estimate the prevalence of tobacco smoking among physiotherapy and nursing students at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain and to describe their perceptions, attitude and behaviour towards smoking and towards the Spanish Smoking ... Read more...

The agony of ambivalence and ways to resolve it: introducing the MAID model.

30 Jan 2009 People are generally averse toward conflict between beliefs and/or feelings underlying their attitudes-that is, attitudinal ambivalence. This review integrates literature on attitudinal ambivalence with theories on decision making and coping ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Dissonance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Investigating adaptive grieving styles: a Delphi study. 29 Apr 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 being a peer-leader in an eating disorder prevention program: can we further reduce eating disorder risk factors? 29 Sep 2008
• It is a threat, but is it dissonance? Comments on Gire and Williams (2007). 29 Sep 2008
• Effects of past transgressions in an induced hypocrisy paradigm. 29 Sep 2008
• Deferred empathy: a construct with implications for the mental health of older adults. 30 Aug 2008
• Reconceptualizing reflexivity and dissonance in professional and personal domains. 30 Aug 2008
• Individual differences in acute alcohol impairment of inhibitory control predict ad libitum alcohol consumption. 28 Aug 2008
• Dissonance induction and reduction: a possible principle and connectionist mechanism for why therapies are effective. Jul 2008
• Mistakes were made ... but by whom? 29 Jun 2008
• Toward a more empathic relationship in pain medicine. 16 Jun 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