Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance

If you study psychology there is a very good chance that you will be introduced to the theory of cognitive dissonance. This robust theory suggests that a motivational state of inner tension is triggered by logically inconsistent ways of thinking.

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Leon Festinger & James Carlsmith was the first of numerous studies to corroborate the theory of cognitive dissonance. The premiss for this classic piece of research was to test what happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion?

Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance (Kindle Edition) is essential reading for psychology students, educators and professionals and forms part of an initiative to make important, insightful and engaging psychology publications widely available.