 Cognitive Dissonance
"Cognitive Dissonance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a cognition and behavior; e.g., smoking enjoyment and believing smoking is harmful are dissonant.
| Descriptor ID |
D003073
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.188.305
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| Concept/Terms |
Cognitive Dissonance- Cognitive Dissonance
- Cognitive Dissonances
- Dissonance, Cognitive
- Dissonances, Cognitive
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cognitive Dissonance" by people in Profiles.
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Grant MD, Flores A, Pedersen EJ, Sherman DK, Van Boven L. When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media. PLoS One. 2021; 16(12):e0259473.
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Breithaupt L, Trojanowski P, Fischer S. Implicit and Explicit Anti-Fat Attitude Change Following Brief Cognitive Dissonance Intervention for Weight Stigma. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 10; 28(10):1853-1859.
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Vanderkruik R, Strife S, Dimidjian S. Lessons learned from training peer-leaders to conduct Body Project workshops. Eat Disord. 2017 Jul-Sep; 25(4):358-374.
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Siegel JT, Alvaro EM, Crano WD, Lac A, Ting S, Jones SP. A quasi-experimental investigation of message appeal variations on organ donor registration rates. Health Psychol. 2008 Mar; 27(2):170-8.
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Marden MO, Rice MJ. The use of hope as a coping mechanism in abused women. J Holist Nurs. 1995 Mar; 13(1):70-82.
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