Dealing with dissonance: A review of cognitive dissonance reduction

A McGrath - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides an overview of research about cognitive dissonance reduction. Over the
past 60 years, researchers have produced significant theoretical and empirical contributions …

[HTML][HTML] Respectable challenges to respectable theory: Cognitive dissonance theory requires conceptualization clarification and operational tools

DC Vaidis, A Bran - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite its long tradition in social psychology, we consider that Cognitive Dissonance
Theory presents serious flaws concerning its methodology which question the relevance of …

Online conspiracy groups: Micro-bloggers, bots, and coronavirus conspiracy talk on Twitter

HR Greve, H Rao, P Vicinanza… - American Sociological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Conspiracies are consequential and social, yet online conspiracy groups that consist of
individuals (and bots) seeking to explain events or a system have been neglected in …

Truth sensitivity and partisan bias in responses to misinformation.

B Gawronski, NL Ng, DM Luke - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Misinformation represents one of the greatest challenges for the functioning of societies in
the information age. Drawing on a signal-detection framework, the current research …

Valence biases and emergence in the stereotype content of intersecting social categories.

G Nicolas, ST Fiske - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People belong to multiple social groups simultaneously. However, much remains to be
learned about the rich semantic perceptions of multiply-categorized targets. Two pretests …

No change is an island: How interferences between change initiatives evoke inconsistencies that undermine implementation

R Kanitz, QN Huy, J Backmann… - Academy of Management …, 2022 - journals.aom.org
Organizational change research has concentrated on the challenges of implementing
isolated changes, paying little attention to the interactions among concurrent change …

Moral inconsistency

DA Effron, BA Helgason - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
We review a program of research examining three questions. First, why is the morality of
people's behavior inconsistent across time and situations? We point to people's ability to …

Opinion formation on dynamic networks: identifying conditions for the emergence of partisan echo chambers

T Evans, F Fu - Royal Society open science, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Modern political interaction is characterized by strong partisanship and a lack of interest in
information sharing and agreement across party lines. It remains largely unclear how such …

When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media

MD Grant, A Flores, EJ Pedersen, DK Sherman… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The present study, conducted immediately after the 2020 presidential election in the United
States, examined whether Democrats' and Republicans' polarized assessments of election …

The Playing Motivations of Male and Female Gamers and the Effects of Stereotypes on Their Motivations in Honor of Kings

C Li, LK Fryer, A Shum - Simulation & Gaming, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Honor of Kings (HoK) is one of the most popular mobile games worldwide. To
understand why players actively engage with digital games, it is essential to focus on their …