Camille Morvan

An Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do we attempt to justify decisions that are clearly irrational? The answer lies in â cognitive dissonance,â the feeling of mental discomfort we experience when we hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time.

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Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 131mm x 197mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9781912127818
• ISBN-10: 1912127814
• Artikelnr.: 48848097

Autorenporträt

Dr Camille Morvan is a pyschology researcher and founder of the psychological human resources company Goshaba. She has taught at Sciences Po in Paris and at Harvard University, as well as working at the École Normale Supérieure. Dr Alexander O'Connor did his postgraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a PhD for work on social and personality psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways In to the Text Who was Leon Festinger? What does A Theory of Cognitive
Dissonance Say? Why does A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Matter? Section
1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2:
Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7:
Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module
9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and
Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned
in the Text Works Cited