Attributional Complexity as a Moderator of Dissonance-Produced Attitude Change

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 449-455

  Stalder, Daniel R ^a   Baron, Robert S ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032335141     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.449     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aronson, E. (1992a). The return of the repressed: Dissonance theory makes a comeback. Psychological Inquiry, 3, 303-311.
2. Aronson, E. (1992b). The social animal (6th ed.), New York: Freeman.
3. Bem, D. J. (1967). Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena. Psychological Review, 74, 183-200.
4. Cialdini, R. B., Trost, M. R., & Newsom, J. T. (1995). Preference for consistency: The development of a valid measure and the discovery of surprising behavioral implications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 318-328.
5. Cohen, A. R., Brehm, J. W., & Fleming, W. H. (1958). Critique and notes: Attitude change and justification for compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 56, 276-278.
6. Cronbach, L. J. (1970). Essentials of psychological testing (3rd ed.). New York: Harper & Row.
7. Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
8. Fletcher, G. J. O., Danilovics, P., Fernandez, G., Peterson, D., & Reeder, G. D. (1986). Attributional complexity: An individual difference measure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 875-884.
9. Fletcher, G. J. O., Rosanowski, J., Rhodes, G., & Lange, C. (1992). Accuracy and speed of causal processing: Experts versus novices in social judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 28, 320-338.
10. Funder, D. C., & Harris, M. J. (1986). On the several facets of personality assessment: The case of social acuity. Journal of Personality, 54, 528-550.
11. Harvey, O. J. (1965). Some situational and cognitive determinants of dissonance resolution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4, 349-355.
12. Hewstone, M. (1989). Causal attribution: From cognitive processes to collective beliefs. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.
13. Kelley, H. H. (1972). Attribution in social interaction. In E. E. Jones, D. E. Kanouse, H. H. Kelley, R. E. Nisbett, S. Valins, & B. Weiner (Eds.), Attribution: Perceiving the causes of behavior (pp. 1-26). Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
14. Leippe, M. R., & Eisenstadt, D. (1994). Generalization of dissonance reduction: Decreasing prejudice through induced compliance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 395-413.
15. Marsh, K. L., & Weary, G. (1989). Depression and attributional complexity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 15, 325-336.
16. Ross, L., Greene, D., & House, P. (1977). The "false consensus effect": An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13, 279-301.
17. Schaller, M., Boyd, C., Yohannes, J., & O'Brien, M. (1995). The prejudiced personality revisited: Personal need for structure and formation of erroneous group stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 544-555.
18. Scheier, M. F. & Carver, C. S. (1980). Private and public self-attention, resistance to change, and dissonance reduction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 390-405.
19. Shultz, T. R., & Lepper, M. R. (1996). Cognitive dissonance reduction as constraint satisfaction. Psychological Review, 103, 219-240.
20. Simon, L., Greenberg, J., & Brehm, J. (1995). Trivialization: The forgotten mode of dissonance reduction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 247-260.
21. Snyder, M., & Tanke, E. D. (1976). Behavior and attitude: Some people are more consistent than others. Journal of Personality, 44, 501-517.
22. Stalder, D. R. (1997). Attributional complexity: A window into attributional phenomena. Manuscript submitted for publication.
23. Steele, C. M., Spencer, S. J., & Lynch, M. (1993). Self-image resilience and dissonance: The role of affirmational resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 885-896.
24. Webster, D. M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1994). Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 1049-1062.
25. White, G. L. (1980). Consensus and justification effects on attitude following counterattitudinal behavior. Social Psychology Quarterly, 43, 321-327.
26. Wicklund, R. A., & Brehm, J. W. (1976). Perspectives on cognitive dissonance. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.