Cognitive Dissonance (Latest Articles)

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The basis and relevance of emotional dignity.

30 Dec 2002 The paper is a preliminary examination of the origin and role of psychological perception or "feeling" of dignity in human beings. Following Ayala's naturalistic account of morality, a sense of emotional dignity is seen as an outcome of processes of ...
rec_pub_12870633-the-basis-relevance-emotional-dignity.htm

[Results of comparative studies of psychophysiological factors essential for self-evaluation of pain during oral therapeutic interventions]

30 Dec 2002 The efficiency of infiltration, conduction, and intraligamental anesthesia with different anesthetics for oral therapeutic interventions was evaluated in 331 patients without concomitant somatic diseases. The levels of reactivity and personal ...
rec_pub_12772551-results-comparative-studies-psychophysiological-factors-essential.htm

How does individual smoking behaviour among hospital staff influence their knowledge of the health consequences of smoking?

30 Dec 2002 AIMS: This study examined associations between individual smoking habits among hospital staff and their knowledge of the health consequences of smoking and passive smoking. The a priori hypothesis was a higher level of knowledge among non-smokers ...
rec_pub_12745766-how-does-individual-smoking-behaviour-hospital-staff-influence.htm

Emotional dissonance in medical social work practice.

30 Dec 2002 This qualitative study examined several ecological aspects of medical social work practice that affect social workers' emotional well-being. Forty-seven medical social workers from seven hospitals participated in small group interviews in which ...
rec_pub_12564652-emotional-dissonance-medical-social-work-practice.htm

Head games. The psychology of medical group financial management and the role of physician leaders.

30 Dec 2002 Good practice leaders must understand the psychology of presenting and managing the financial performance of the medical group. Leaders--especially physicians--must strive to understand this psychology to shepherd the group through the various ...
rec_pub_12557746-head-games-psychology-medical-group-financial-management-role.htm

[Tolerance of ambiguity, art therapy and psychiatric illness]

30 Oct 2002 Tolerance of ambiguity means the ability to tolerate contradictory and incalculable informations. There is the hypothesis that a high degree of tolerance of ambiguity correlates with creativity. It is unclear how various psychiatric illnesses and ...
rec_pub_12436364-tolerance-ambiguity-art-therapy-psychiatric-illness.htm

Attribution retraining with sexually abused children: review of techniques.

30 Jan 2002 Clinicians increasingly use empirically based cognitive-behavioral techniques in their treatment of child victims of sexual abuse. Attribution retraining is often a primary component of this work, and it involves various techniques aimed at ...
rec_pub_11838516-attribution-retraining-sexually-abused-children-review-techniques.htm

Smoke screen: an ethnographic study of a cigar shop's collective rationalization.

30 Dec 2001 It is the purpose of this ethnographic study to explain why efforts from the medical establishment, the press, and friends and family are unsuccessful in persuading a group of men at a local cigar shop to stop smoking. I also seek to determine how ...
rec_pub_12046797-smoke-screen-ethnographic-study-cigar-shop-s-collective.htm

What causes the isolation effect?

30 Oct 2001 Events that are incongruent with their prevailing context are usually very well remembered. This fact often is described as the distinctiveness effect in memory, an effect that has served as explanation not only of memory phenomena but also of ...
rec_pub_11713872-what-causes-isolation-effect.htm

Conflict of intentions due to callosal disconnection.

29 Sep 2001 OBJECTIVES: Three patients with callosal syndrome manifested a peculiar symptom in that they were unable to perform intended whole body actions because another intention emerged in competition with the original one. Attempts were made to clarify the ...
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