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Critically Analyzing Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory

This paper consists of an eight page overview, analysis, critique, and current debates concerning Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

Festinger, Sternberg, and Seligman on Human Motivation

In four pages this paper considers human motivation in a discussion of the attribute changing ABCDE method by Seligman, the Triang...

Festinger and Carlsmith's Seminal Study

Many of us have experienced cognitive dissonance. It happens when we say or do something that is against our personal beliefs. Thi...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Departmental Reorganization

In three pages the cognitive dissonance theory of Festinger is applied to the opposition to a directive that demands departmental ...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

Persuasive Argument Theories

are still being paid less than men for the same job and it is also true that men have been taught more negotiating skills than wom...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

Earl R. Beck's Nazi Germany At War

In five pages this text by Earl R. Beck about Nazi Germany is critically analyzed....

Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

In eight pages this text is critically reviewed in terms of the theories McLuhan presented and critical points are argued....

Ideology of Mahatma Gandhi

In twelve pages Gandhi's ideology is critically analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Analysis of Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox Bow Incident

In five pages this text is critically analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill

In five pages O'Neill's play is critically analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

The City of Glass by Paul Auster Critically Analyzed

In five pages Auster's complex mystery novel is critically analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Two Articles from The New York Times Involving the Toxicity of Vitamins and Burning Trash

In five pages these two articles are critically analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

John Osborne's Play Look Back In Anger

In three pages Osborne's play is critically analyzed. There is 1 source listed in the bibliography....

A. Retsas' Article 'Problematic telephone orders Empowering nurses through action research' Article Reviewed

However, the article really focuses not only on the broad problem of medication errors, or insubordination, but a specific area th...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

nowhere, even in his hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. So he joined fellow writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald on a seemingly endless ...

Using the Cognitive Dissonance Theory to Evaluate the Decision of ER Doctor Elizabeth Corday

decide whether it was right to go against the law to do good. Many situations come up for individuals where they must decide what ...

Kris Kringle's Personality

In five pages this paper analyzes Kris Kringle's personality in a consideration of delusions, hallucinations, and cognitive functi...

Approaches to Psychology

as cycle speed follows no set pattern and can overlap one another within the maturation process. "In early developmental theories...

Cognitive Learning Theories

information, linking new to old knowledge, schema, and scripts" (NSW HSC Online, n.d.). The major premise in the cognitive schoo...

Premarital Sex

outside of marriage. Chastity is the watchword of Christian ethics pertaining to sexual relations. Its teachings reflect t...

Racism and Cognitive Dissonance

into a state of psychological dissonance, which, in turn, produces an unpleasant tension (Rudolph, 2003). According to Festinger, ...

Making a Cognitive Dissonance Case

come back to haunt him in the future. They may also harm the company in the future at which time it is likely to then seek to plac...

Two theories relating to cognitive development: Case and Siegler

state to another, which could be considered the strategies used. In other words, there is something similar to a hierarchy and the...

Developmental Schemas for Children

Piaget is bast known for his stages of cognitive development. His theory is still being used today as well as being researched. Pi...

Developmenetal Theories and Counseling

(Ginn 2009). Accommodation is the act of changing the cognitive structure in order to accept new knowledge or new experiences and ...

Cognitive Psychology as a Neurological Framework

of cognitive neuropsychology finds its contemporary origins in the 1960s, there are famous cases in history that appear to substan...