Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory

By J. Cooper. 2007

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THE PRODUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY: A CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (2010, background): “This is a condition in which two cognitions held by an individual are dissonant, or incongruent (Cooper, 2007; Festinger, 1957; Harmon-Jones and Mills, 1999; Parker and Copyright © 2010 Strategic Management Society Strat.”
Is This Review Believable? A Study of Factors Affecting the Credibility of Online Consumer Reviews from an ELM Perspective (2012, background): “In addition to credibility, a review’s consistency with other reviews creates less cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957; Strong, 1968; Pornpitakpan, 2004; Cooper, 2007).”
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability (2017, background): “Program participants who are investing considerable time and effort without full compensation, might experience the avoidance of cognitive dissonance (Cooper, 2007; Festinger, 1962).”
The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued (2018, background): “Effort adds value to the goals that we effortfully pursue [67], but effort can be rewarding in its own right [10,99,104].”
Attitudes in social context: A social identity perspective (2007, methodology): “, & Cooper, J. (1984). Attitude polarisation: The effects of group membership.”
Chapter 3 Action‐Based Model of Dissonance: A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict (2009, methodology): “The above paradigms continue to be used fruitfully in research (e.g., Beauvois & Joule, 1996; Cooper, 2007; Harmon-Jones & Mills, 1999; Olson & Stone, 2005).”
Bad riddance or good rubbish? Ownership and not loss aversion causes the endowment effect. (2009, background): “Decades of work on cognitive dissonance theory (Cooper, 2007) has shown that people value what they choose simply because they chose it (Brehm, 1956), and indeed, when people choose Alternative X but are led via a clever experimental technique to believe they chose Alternative Y, it is Alternative Y”
Self-enhancement and self-protection: What they are and what they do (2009, background): “After almost four decades of relevant research it is fair to assert that the motivational assumptions of cognitive dissonance theory have been vindicated (Aronson, 1992; Cooper, 2007; Elliot & Devine, 1994).”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “Experimental research, from early studies of cognitive dissonance (Cooper, 2007; Festinger; 1957) to more recent work on violations of expectations (e.”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, background): “As countless studies show, this dissonance requires resolution, either through changing one’s actions to better align with one’s beliefs, or changing one’s beliefs to better align with one’s actions (see Cooper, 2007, for a review).”
When Employees Are Out of Step with Coworkers: How Job Satisfaction Trajectory and Dispersion Influence Individual- and Unit-Level Voluntary Turnover (2012, background): “As a result, an individual is impelled to reduce or eliminate the undesirable discrepancy through behavioral changes or to exit the situation (Cooper, 2007; Festinger, 1957).”
Collective Action—and Then What? (2009, background): “…collective action which can be derived from social-psychological research. and polarize identification and group norms (e.g., Freedman & Fraser, 1966), while dissonance research suggests that polarization could occur not despite but because of negative outcomes of the action (e.g., Cooper, 2007).”
Travel and cognitive dissonance (2020, background): “This theory has – over the last 60 years − been frequently used to explain attitudes and behaviour in various domains such as marketing, politics and economics (Brehm & Cohen, 1962; Cooper, 2007; Harmon-Jones & Mills, 1999; Wicklund & Brehm, 1976).”