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An Analysis of Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Merton S. Krause
Merton S. Krause*
Affiliation:
Institute for Juvenile Research
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Abstract

An axiomatization of the theory is presented based on an explication of the 1957 text. Twenty-five theorems are deduced from the seven postulates. An abstract test space for the theory is formulated and the operations for its practical testing discussed. Traditional experimentation with the theory seems generally concerned with few of its propositions and incapable of testing it.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 32 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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