Cognitive consequences of forced compliance.

L Festinger, JM Carlsmith - The journal of abnormal and social …, 1959 - psycnet.apa.org
L Festinger, JM Carlsmith
The journal of abnormal and social psychology, 1959psycnet.apa.org
Atest of some hypotheses generated by Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, viz., that"
if a person is induced to do or say something which is contrary to his private opinion, there
will be a tendency for him to change his opinion so as to bring it into correspondence with
what he has done or said. The larger the pressure used to elicit the overt behavior… the
weaker will be the… tendency…. The results strongly corroborate the theory."(PsycInfo
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Abstract
Atest of some hypotheses generated by Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, viz., that" if a person is induced to do or say something which is contrary to his private opinion, there will be a tendency for him to change his opinion so as to bring it into correspondence with what he has done or said. The larger the pressure used to elicit the overt behavior… the weaker will be the… tendency…. The results strongly corroborate the theory."(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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