Cognitive Dissonance Reduction as Constraint Satisfaction

Psychological Review

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-240

  Shultz, Thomas R ^a   Lepper, Mark R ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; HUMAN; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0030117871     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.2.219     Document Type: Article

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