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| The distressing mental state caused by inconsistency between a person;s two beliefs or a belief and an action |
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| The tendency people have to avoid information that woud create cognitive dissonance because it's incompatible with their current beliefs |
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| Strong doubts experienced after making an important, close-call decision that is difficult to reverse |
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| Minimal justification hypothesis |
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| A claim that the best way to stimulate an attitude change in others is to offer just enough incentive to elicit counter-attitudinal behavior |
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| public's conformity to another's expectation without necessarily having a private conviction that matches the behavior |
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| Counter-attitudinal advocacy |
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| publicly urging other to believe or do something that is opposed to what the advocate actually believes |
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| a hypothetical, reliable gauge of the dissonance a person feels as a result of inconsistency |
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| the claim that we determine our attitudes the same way outside observers do-by observing our behavior; an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory |
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