Dissonance on the Road: Self-Esteem as a Moderator of Internal and External Self-Justification Strategies

By Rob W. Holland, Ree M. Meertens, M. van Vugt. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Attitudes and persuasion. (2006, unknown): “These evaluative abstractions vary in strength, which in turn has implications for persistence, resistance, and attitude-behavior consistency (Holland et al. 2002a, Petty et al. 2004).”
• When Employees Do Bad Things for Good Reasons: Examining Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors (2011, background): “Second, cognitive dissonance is important to consider as a consequence because of its potential role in attitude change subsequent to performing unethical behavior (Kelman and Baron 1974, Holland et al. 2002, Tsang 2002).”
• High self-esteem buffers negative feedback: Once more with feeling (2010, background): “In one study, Holland, Meertens, and Van Vugt ( 2002 , Experiment 2) gave some participants ego-threatening feedback and then measured their psychological discomfort.”