• DOI:10.1111/J.1467-6494.1964.TB01357.X
Corpus ID: 19556220

CHANGES IN LIKING AS A MEANS OF REDUCING COGNITIVE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND AGGRESSION.

@article{Glass1964CHANGESIL,
  title={CHANGES IN LIKING AS A MEANS OF REDUCING COGNITIVE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND AGGRESSION.},
  author={D. C. Glass},
  journal={Journal of personality},
  year={1964},
  volume={32},
  pages={
          531-49
        }
}

• D. C. Glass
• Published 1964
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of personality

Festmger's theory of cogmtive dissonance (1957) states that two cogmtions are m a dissonant relation if, considenng these two alone, they are psychologically inconsistent or contradictory The existence of dissonance motivates the mdividual to reduce dissonance by engagmg m cognitive changes, behavior changes, etc This theory has led to a considerable amount of research on the consequences of behaving m ways which are discrepant with prior behefs ( eg , Cohen, Brehm, & Flemmg, 1958, Festmger… Expand