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Cognitive Dissonance (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Cognitive Dissonance'
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Are cochlear implant patients suffering from perceptual dissonance?
29 Sep 2005 
Cochlear implants provide functional hearing to the majority of recipients and have gained widespread acceptance clinically, but the range of performance remains great and largely unexplained. Designs for implanted electrodes and electronics have ...
rec_pub_16230894-are-cochlear-implant-patients-suffering-perceptual-dissonance.htm
New graduate identity: discursive mismatch.
30 Aug 2005 For many new graduates the transition from nursing student to a professional in practice is marked by conflict and tension. Given that conflict may ensue from differing discursive constructions of new graduates, this article reports a review of ...
rec_pub_16295343-new-graduate-identity-discursive-mismatch.htm
On the cultural guises of cognitive dissonance: the case of easterners and westerners.
30 Aug 2005 Cognitive dissonance and effects of self-affirmation on dissonance arousal were examined cross-culturally. In Studies 1 and 2, European Canadians justified their choices more when they made them for themselves, whereas Asian Canadians (Study 1) or ...
rec_pub_16248715-on-cultural-guises-cognitive-dissonance-case-easterners-westerners.htm
30 Aug 2005 The contribution deals with the wide-spread rejection of (evolutionary) biological founded statements concerning sex differences by social sciences and arts, which are not based on objective objections, but are ideologically justified. The starting ...
rec_pub_16176056-why-arts-social-scientists-huge-difficulties-accepting-evolutionary.htm
What we regret most... and why.
30 Aug 2005 
Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within life domains evokes more intense ...
rec_pub_16055646-what-regret-why.htm
Reexploring the connection between terror management theory and dissonance theory.
30 Aug 2005 Building upon suggestive earlier findings, the present study sought to test more informatively the notion that reminders of mortality can intensify efforts at dissonance reduction. Toward this end, an induced-compliance experiment was conducted in ...
rec_pub_16055641-reexploring-connection-terror-management-theory-dissonance-theory.htm
Putting ifs to work: goal-based relevance in conditional directives.
30 Jul 2005 Conditional directives are used by speakers to instruct hearers which actions are to be taken should certain events occur. The authors demonstrate that conditional directives are distinct from indicative conditionals in which speakers predict what ...
rec_pub_16131270-putting-ifs-work-goal-based-relevance-conditional-directives.htm
29 Jun 2005 QUESTION: How have theorists and empirical researchers treated the human tendency to avoid discomforting information? DATA SOURCES: A historical review (1890-2004) of theory literature in communication and information studies, coupled with searches ...
rec_pub_16059425-avoiding-versus-seeking-relationship-information-seeking-avoidance.htm
Self-reflection in multicultural training: be careful what you ask for.
29 Jun 2005 Self-reflection in multicultural education is an important means to develop self-awareness and ultimately to change professional behavior in favor of more equitable health care to diverse populations. As conceptualized by scholars in the field of ...
rec_pub_15980089-self-reflection-multicultural-training-careful-ask-for.htm
Academic and clinical dissonance in nursing education: are we guilty of failure to rescue?
27 Feb 2005 The experience of cognitive dissonance in novice clinical nursing students is examined. These students often confront an incongruity between the rule-bound academic ideal of nursing with which they have been prepared and the more flexible, ...
rec_pub_15785345-academic-clinical-dissonance-nursing-education-guilty-failure-rescue.htm
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