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Cognitive Consistency Theory: The Need for Belief Alignment
Examine cognitive consistency theory and its role in shaping our beliefs to minimize psychological discomfort.
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−Case Study 1: The Grasshopper Study, Brehm (1960)
+Case Study 1: The Grasshopper Study, Zimbardo et al. (1965)
−Jack Brehm, then at Yale, conducted a study in which Army reservists were…
+Philip Zimbardo and colleagues (1965) conducted a study in which Army reservi…
−Van Veen and colleagues (2009), publishing in Psychological Science…
+Van Veen and colleagues (2009), publishing in Nature Neuroscience…
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