Monday, September 12, 2011

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith (Free Full Text)



Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance is the latest addition to the psychology journal article collection. An initiative by the All About Psychology website to make important, insightful and engaging publications freely available.

This robust theory suggests that a motivational state of inner tension is triggered by logically inconsistent ways of thinking.

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith was the first of numerous studies to corroborate the theory of cognitive dissonance. The premiss for this classic piece of research was to test what happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion.

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