This article provides an overview of research about cognitive dissonance reduction. Over the
past 60 years, researchers have produced significant theoretical and empirical contributions …

Social psychology is a flourishing discipline. It explores the most essential questions of the
human psyche (eg, Why do people help or harm others? How do influence professionals get …

Entropy, a concept derived from thermodynamics and information theory, describes the
amount of uncertainty and disorder within a system. Self-organizing systems engage in a …

Persuasion plays an essential role in everyday social life. We use the term persuasion to
refer to any procedure with the potential to change someone's mind. Although persuasion …

When our actions conflict with our prior attitudes, we often change our attitudes to be more
consistent with our actions. This phenomenon, known as cognitive dissonance, is …

According to many modern economic theories, actions simply reflect an individual's
preferences, whereas a psychological phenomenon called “cognitive dissonance” claims …

Pablo Briñol and Richard E. Petty the world around us. Thus, the term “attitude” was used to
refer to the posture of one's body (Galton, 1884), and to expressive motor behaviors (eg, a …

Religious belief has been shown to offer substantial benefits to its adherents, including
improved well-being and health. We suggest that these benefits might be explained, at least …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to discover the extent to which consumers are aware
of air filling in food packaging, the extent to which deceptive packaging and slack filling …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to conduct an exploratory analysis of low‐income
women consumers' consumption of low‐involvement grocery products, and to explore the …