Reduction in cognitive dissonance according to normative standards in the induced compliance paradigm

Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 191-195

  Voisin, Dimitri ^a   Fointiat, Valérie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Assessment of research importance; Dissonance; Induced compliance; Normative standards; Trivialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878393012     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000103     Document Type: Article

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