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Cognitive Dissonance Theory
In 1957, Leon Festinger proposed that cognitive dissonance is a common psychological phenomenon that many individuals experience on a daily basis. For example, cognitive dissonance occurs for smokers who are trying to quit when they light up another cigarette. It also occurs for politicians who propose legislation to restrict certain forms of behavior, only to be caught later engaging in the behaviors they tried to restrict. In each of these examples, at least one of the cognitive elements (e.g., behavior) is inconsistent with one ...
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- Etic/Emic
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- Phonological Elements of Identity
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- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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- Living Ethically
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- Articulation Theory
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- Critical Theory
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- Framing
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- Religion
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- Archetype
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- Basking in Reflected Glory
- Bricolage
- Commodity Self
- Critical Realism
- Cultural Representation
- Desire and the Looking-Glass Self
- Existentialist Identity Questions
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- Other, The
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- Social Constructivist Approach to Political Identity
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- Articulation Theory
- Asiacentricity
- Black Atlantic
- Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- Communication Competence
- Communication Theory of Identity
- Contact Hypothesis
- Corporate Identity
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Realism
- Critical Theory
- Cultivation Theory
- Cultural Contracts Theory
- Enryo-Sasshi Theory
- Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory
- Eurocentricity
- Global Village
- Identity Scripts
- Immediacy
- Interaction Order
- Mirror Stage of Identity Development
- Modernity and Postmodernity
- Optimal Distinctiveness Theory
- Organizational Identity
- Otherness, History of
- Persistence, Termination, and Memory
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Identity
- Political Economy
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- Racial Contracts
- Regulatory Focus Theory
- Social Comparison Theory
- Social Economy
- Social Identity Theory
- Sociometer Hypothesis
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Terror Management Theory
- Theory of Mind
- Third Culture Building
- Uncertainty Avoidance
- World Systems Theory
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