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Personal responsibility and dissonance: The role of foreseen consequences.
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1971-06-01. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-justification & Self-perception theory.read more
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The Psychology of Self-Affirmation: Sustaining the Integrity of the Self
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the way coping processes restore self-regard rather than the way they address the provoking threat itself, focusing on the way people cope with the implications of threat to their self-reward.
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Knee-deep in the Big Muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the process of escalating commitment through the simulation of a business investment decision and found that persons committed the greatest amount of resources to a previously chosen course of action when they were personally responsible for negative consequences.
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The Escalation of Commitment To a Course of Action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent research on the escalation of commitment and try to integrate its complex and often conflicting determinants, such as the ability of persons who have suffered a setback to recoup their losses through an even greater commitment of resources to the same course of action, a cycle of escalating commitment can be produced.
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The development and implications of a personal problem-solving inventory
TL;DR: For example, Rotter, J. B., Nie, N. Nel, E., Helmreich, R., and Aronson, E. B. as mentioned in this paper proposed a method for problem-solving and creativity.
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The experience of regret: what, when, and why
TL;DR: The authors contend that this temporal pattern to the experience of regret is multiply determined, and present a framework to organize the divergent causal mechanisms that are responsible for it.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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A theory of personality : the psychology of personal constructs
TL;DR: The Psychology of Personal Constructs (PPC) theory as discussed by the authors is based on the concept that there are many workable ways by which individuals can construct their world and develop new means of overcoming obstacles; we are neither prisoners of our environment nor victims of our past.
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The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group.
Elliot Aronson,Judson Mills +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that persons who undergo an unpleasant initiation to become members of a group increase their liking for the group; that is, they find the group more attractive than do persons who become members without going through a severe initiation.