Preference for dissonant information.
- 1 August 1965
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 287-289
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022415
Abstract
Ss heard a tape-recorded interview which was designed to make the interviewee sound either very well qualified for an international conference or very poorly qualified. Ss rated the interviewee and were then given a choice of reading an evaluation of him that agreed with their rating or one that disagreed with it. Of 18 Ss, 17 chose the evaluation that disagreed with their rating. A number of possible explanations of this result are offered, and supplementary data are presented to support them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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