Cognitive Dissonance and Experienced Negative Affect: Evidence that Dissonance Increases Experienced Negative Affect Even in the Absence of Aversive Consequences

By Eddie Harmon-Jones. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Attitudes and persuasion. (2006, unknown): “…(1957), who undoubtedly would be astonished to find controversy still attending his classic study with Carlsmith (Festinger & Carlsmith 1959, Harmon-Jones 2000b), and active research on free choice (Kitayama et al. 2004), postdecision regret (Brownstein et al. 2004), and even selective…”
Communication and Attitude Change: Causes, Processes, and Effects (2005, background): “Johnson, Kelly, & LeBlanc, 1995), although aversive consequences are not necessary for attitude change to occur (Harmon-Jones, 2000; Harmon-Jones, Brehm, Greenberg, Simon, & Nelson, 1996; Prislin & Pool, 1996).”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “General measures of pleasant and unpleasant affect usually fail to show any mediation of the effect of threat on defense (Fein & Spencer, 1997; Greenberg et al., 1990; Harmon-Jones, 2000; Rosenblatt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszcynski, & Lyon, 1989; Sherman, Nelson, & Steele, 2000).”
Chapter 3 Action‐Based Model of Dissonance: A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict (2009, methodology): “…found to exhibit heightened electrodermal activity (which is associated with activation of the sympathetic nervous system; Elkin & Leippe, 1986; Harmon-Jones et al., Simon & Nelson, 1996) and report increased negative affect (e.g., Elliot & Devine, 1994; Harmon-Jones, 2000c; Zanna & Cooper, 1974).”
VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT: Getting Specific About Being Dynamic (2005, background): “In the shorter term, negative affect (Harmon-Jones, 2000) and mood (Benedict, Dobraski, & Goldstein, 1999) change over periods of weeks.”
Testing the Action-Based Model of Cognitive Dissonance: The Effect of Action Orientation on Postdecisional Attitudes (2002, unknown): “In a return to the heart of the theory of cognitive dissonance, several theorists have suggested that cognitive inconsistency is the motivating force ( Harmon-Jones, 1999, 2000a, 2000b, 2001; Harmon-Jones et al.,”
Cognitive Dissonance Theory After 50 Years of Development (2007, background): “…(which is associated with activation of the sympathetic nervous system; Elkin & Leippe, 1983; HarmonJones, Brehm, Greenberg, Simon, & Nelson, 1996) and report increased negative affect (e.g., Elliot & Devine, 1994; Harmon-Jones, 2000d; Russell & Jones, 1980; Shaffer, 1975; Zanna & Cooper, 1974).”
Creativity under workload pressure and integrative complexity: The double-edged sword of paradoxical leadership (2019, background): “Otherwise, employees might feel conflicted about the inconsistency in leaders’ behavior and experience negative affect (Harmon-Jones, 2000), which could decrease their CSE (Gong et al.”
Feeling Validated Versus Being Correct:A Meta-Analysis of Selective Exposure to Information (2009, unknown): “This discomfort can arise from the mere presence of cognitive conflict (Beauvois & Joule, 1996; Harmon-Jones, 2000; Harmon-Jones, Brehm, Greenberg, Simon, & Nelson, 1996) or from a self-threat, such as the perception that one is poorly informed (Aronson, 1968; Greenwald & Ronis, 1978; Schlenker,…”