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Cognitive Dissonance (Latest Articles)

 

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Desire or reason: predicting health behaviors from affective and cognitive attitudes.

30 Dec 2008 OBJECTIVE: The authors explore the role of affective attitudes in predicting 14 health-promoting or health-risk behaviors. Design: Participants (n = 390) completed questionnaire measures of affective and cognitive attitude and, 1 month later, ...
rec_pub_19210018-desire-reason-predicting-health-behaviors-affective-cognitive.htm


Preventing eating disorders.

30 Dec 2008 This article reviews eating disorder (ED) prevention programs, highlighting features that define successful programs and particularly promising interventions, and how they might be further refined. The field of ED prevention has advanced ...
rec_pub_19014867-preventing-eating-disorders.htm


A painful reminder: the role of level and salience of attitude importance in cognitive dissonance.

30 Dec 2008 In his seminal book, L. Festinger (1957) emphasized the role of attitude importance in cognitive dissonance. This study (N = 308) explored whether people's use of dissonance reduction strategies differs as a function of level of attitude importance ...
rec_pub_19106082-a-painful-reminder-role-level-salience-attitude-importance-cognitive.htm


What we regret most are lost opportunities: a theory of regret intensity.

17 Dec 2008 A recent theory (Roese & Summerville, 2005) has suggested that regret is intensified by perceptions of future opportunity. In this work, however, it is proposed that feelings of regret are more likely elicited by perceptions of lost opportunity: ...
rec_pub_19098259-what-regret-lost-opportunities-theory-regret-intensity.htm


General and program-specific moderators of two eating disorder prevention programs.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To investigate general and program-specific factors hypothesized to moderate the effects of two eating disorder prevention programs. METHOD: High-risk adolescent girls (N = 481; M age = 17) were randomized to a dissonance-based thin-ideal ...
rec_pub_18528875-general-program-specific-moderators-two-eating-disorder-prevention.htm


Effects of a cognitive dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program are similar for Asian American, Hispanic, and White participants.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: This study explored the effects of participating in a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program on changes in thin ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, and eating symptoms among White, Asian American, and Hispanic ...
rec_pub_18528871-effects-cognitive-dissonance-based-eating-disorder-prevention-program.htm


In support of Bleuler: objective evidence for increased affective ambivalence in schizophrenia based upon evocative testing.

20 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Ambivalence and anhedonia have long been identified as schizophrenic symptoms. However, ambivalence has rarely been studied, and in most evocative studies, schizophrenia participants are not anhedonic. Affective neurosciences posit two ...
rec_pub_18947981-in-support-bleuler-objective-evidence-increased-affective-ambivalence.htm


Effects of past transgressions in an induced hypocrisy paradigm.

29 Sep 2008 Hypocrisy can be considered as a dissonance state expressed as a combination of two factors: commitment (advocating a pronormative position) and mindfulness (being aware of past transgressions). Such inconsistency between what people advocate and ...
rec_pub_19102490-effects-past-transgressions-induced-hypocrisy-paradigm.htm


It is a threat, but is it dissonance? Comments on Gire and Williams (2007).

29 Sep 2008
rec_pub_18958973-it-threat-dissonance-comments-gire-williams-2007.htm


Effects of being a peer-leader in an eating disorder prevention program: can we further reduce eating disorder risk factors?

29 Sep 2008 Studies regarding the effect of peer-leadership on peer-leaders in prevention programs remain extremely limited. In this study, 83 undergraduate sorority members, who previously participated in the program, served as peer-leaders for an eating ...
rec_pub_18821367-effects-peer-leader-eating-disorder-prevention-program-reduce-eating.htm

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