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Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger (1957, Trade Paperback)

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Number of Pages: 304. Author: Festinger, Leon (Author). Weight: 0.97 lbs. Publication Date: 1957-06-01. Publisher: STANFORD UNIV PR.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804709114

ISBN-139780804709118

eBay Product ID (ePID)45013985

Product Key Features

Number of Pages292 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTheory of Cognitive Dissonance

SubjectCognitive Psychology & Cognition, Social Psychology

Publication Year1957

TypeTextbook

AuthorLeon Festinger

Subject AreaPsychology

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal137.33

SynopsisLeon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward , and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its major assumptions stand in apparent opposition to cetain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for data with which other theories have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have been regarded as unrelated, and it is supported by the results of experiments designed specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text., Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem of why partial reward, delay of reward, and effort expenditure during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its major assumptions stand in apparent opposition to cetain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for data with which other theories have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have been regarded as unrelated, and it is supported by the results of experiments designed specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text.