A General Model of Dissonance Reduction: Unifying Past Accounts via an Emotion Regulation Perspective

Cognitive dissonance has been studied for more than 60 years and many insightful findings have come from this research. However, some important theoretical and methodological issues are yet to be resolved, particularly regarding dissonance reduction. In this paper, we place dissonance theory in the...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Cancino-Montecinos, Fredrik Björklund, Torun Lindholm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.540081/full