Cognitive Consistency
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Cognitive Consistency

Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral Consequents

  1. 326 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cognitive Consistency

Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral Consequents

About this book

Cognitive Consistency: Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral presents the behavioral implications of the motivation for consistency. This book discusses the relationship between assumptions and motivation for consistency. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the area of study, empirical problems, and theoretical issues. This text then examines the nature of the motivation for consistency. Other chapters consider the effects of the formal aspects of cognitions. This book discusses as well the behavioral implications of consistency-seeking and the development of theories of cognitive consistency. The final chapter deals with the extent to which the motivation for consistency is based upon cognitive or social consideration. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in attitude formation and change, in particular, and those interested in social psychology and communications, in general. Psychologists, communications specialists, researchers, and theorists working in the scope of the consistency theories will also find this book useful.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Cognitive Consistency: Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral Consequents
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. The Current Status of Cognitive Consistency Theories
  8. Chapter 2. Motivation for Consistency
  9. Chapter 3. Motivational Aspects of Attitudinal Elements and Their Place in Cognitive Interaction
  10. Chapter 4. The Psychology of Insufficient Justification: An Analysis of Some Confhcting Data
  11. Chapter 5. Some Limits of Dissonance: Toward a Differentiated View of Counter-Attitudinal Performance
  12. Chapter 6. Subjective Acceptance of Verbal Generalizations
  13. Chapter 7. The Relationships between Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior
  14. Chapter 8. Task Acceptance Dilemmas: A Site for Research on Cognition
  15. Chapter 9. Some Conceptual and Empirical Problems of Consistency Models
  16. Author Index
  17. Subject Index