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Cognitive dissonance processes serve an action-oriented adaptive function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

Eddie Harmon-Jones Open the ORCID record for Eddie Harmon-Jones [Opens in a new window]  and
Cindy Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones
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School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052Australia. eddiehj@gmail.comcindyharmonjones@gmail.comwww.socialemotiveneuroscience.org
Cindy Harmon-Jones
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052Australia. eddiehj@gmail.comcindyharmonjones@gmail.comwww.socialemotiveneuroscience.org
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Abstract

The action-based model of cognitive dissonance proposes an adaptive function for rationalization that differs from the one offered by Cushman. The one proposed by Cushman is concerned more with the cold construction of cognitions, whereas the one proposed by the action-based model is a motivated protection of a strongly held cognition.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e38
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