Cognitive Consistency and the Interaction between Theory and Data

2017 ◽  
pp. 117-202
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Consistency

Examining the Effects of Cognitive Consistency Between Training and Displays

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Adelman ◽  
◽  
Matthew Christian ◽  
James Gualtieri ◽  
Karen Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Consistency

Cognitive Consistency in Prejudice Against the Overweight

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula M. Brochu ◽  
Victoria M. Esses ◽  
Bertram Gawronski
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Consistency

Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie W. Kruglanski ◽  
Katarzyna Jasko ◽  
Maxim Milyavsky ◽  
Marina Chernikova ◽  
David Webber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Cognitive Consistency ◽  
Consistency Theory ◽  
Motivational Aspect ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Epistemic Aspect

From the 1950s onward, psychologists have generally assumed that people possess a general need for cognitive consistency whose frustration by an inconsistency elicits negative affect. We offer a novel perspective on this issue by introducing the distinction between epistemic and motivational impact of consistent and inconsistent cognitions. The epistemic aspect is represented by the updated expectancy of the outcome addressed in such cognitions. The motivational aspect stems from value (desirability) of that outcome. We show that neither the outcome’s value nor its updated expectancy are systematically related to cognitive consistency or inconsistency. Consequently, we question consistency’s role in the driving of affective responses, and the related presumption of a universal human need for cognitive consistency.

A Cognitive Consistency Approach to Job Satisfaction

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Orpen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
South African ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Cognitive Consistency ◽  
Negative Results

Korman's (1970) argument that self-esteem moderates the relationships between job satisfaction and perceived need-fulfilment and between job satisfaction and the extent to which one's job meets with group approval was tested with 120 Coloured South African factory workers who were given the Porter need-fulfilment questionnaire, 2 measures of job satisfaction, and 3 measures of self-esteem, and for whom a measure of the extent to which their jobs were found desirable by others was available. The correlations between job satisfaction and need-fulfilment and between job satisfaction and group approval did not differ significantly between Ss who obtained high and low scores on each of the self-esteem measures. The negative results are explained in terms of weaknesses in the balance and dissonance models from which Korman's argument is derived.

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