Role of Foreseen, Foreseeable, and Unforeseeable Behavioral Consequences in the Arousal of Cognitive Dissonance.

Goethals, George R.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ219980

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Publication Date: 1979-Jul

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Role of Foreseen, Foreseeable, and Unforeseeable Behavioral Consequences in the Arousal of Cognitive Dissonance.

Goethals, George R.; And Others

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, v37 n7 p1179-85 Jul 1979

Tests the proposition that both foreseen and foreseeable consequences can lead to the arousal of cognitive dissonance, and predicts that self-justificatory attitude change would occur in the foreseen conditions, regardless of whether subsequent information about the occurrence of the consequence was ever given. Subjects were 60 undergraduate students. (MP)

Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Higher Education, Responses, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students

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Language: English

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