Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance

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enough statistics to read a mean and a t-test; the design is simple and the paper is short

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• Attitudes and Cognitive OrganizationFritz Heider, 1946People strive to keep their attitudes toward each other and toward third parties or objects in a balanced, consistent triangle, and will change one attitude rather than tolerate the psychological strain of an unbalanced one - the seed of later attribution theory.

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• An Introduction to Cognitive Dissonance Theory and an Overview of Current Perspectives on the TheoryEddie Harmon-Jones & Judson Mills, 2019Surveys how the original account of dissonance as any two inconsistent cognitions narrowed, after decades of revision, to cases where a person's own action threatens their sense of being a competent, moral, sensible self.