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Notes on: Aronson, Elliot. 1997. “Back to the Future: Retrospective Review of Leon Festinger’s A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

For what it is worth here are some notes on an article I must have reviewed for one of my classes.

Aronson, Elliot. 1997. “Back to the Future: Retrospective Review of Leon Festinger’s A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”. American Journal of Psychology 110, 1: 127-137.
Aronson proposes a revision to strengthen the theory of cognitive dissonance; he argues that dissonance is most clear when the inconsistency is between a cognition about the self and behaviour in violation of this cognition (131). Thus the individual’s “self-concept” is crucial to what is found to be inconsistent.
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