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Atest of some hypotheses generated by Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, viz., that "if a person is induced to do or say something which is contrary to his private opinion, there will be a tendency for him to change his opinion so as to bring it into correspondence with what he has done or said. The larger the pressure used to elicit the overt behavior… the weaker will be the ...
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COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF FORCED COMPLIANCE. LEON FESTINGER AND JAMES M. CARLSMITH1. Stanford. WHAT happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opin-ion? Only recently has there been, any experi-mental work related to this question.
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Jan 28, 2011 · Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. The theory behind this experiment is that the person who is forced to improvise a speech convinces himself, and some evidence is presented, which is not altogether conclusive, in support of this explanation. Expand.
forced compliance experiment. It was de-signed to assess the cognitive consequences of forced noncompliance under several degrees of incentive magnitude offered for induce-ment. We predicted that the greater the inducement the subjects resist by refusing to engage in attitude-discrepant behavior, the more extreme their original attitudes will ...
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Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1959) conducted an experiment entitled "Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance". This study involved 71 male students from Stanford University, of which 11 students were disqualified. The students were asked to perform a tedious task involving using one hand to turn small spools a quarter clockwise turn.
COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF FORCED COMPLIANCE Leon Festinger & James M. Carlsmith [ 1] (1959) First published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210. What happens to a person's private opinion if he is forced to do or say something contrary to that opinion?
This article tests the application of cognitive dissonance theory to self-attitudes in a study of forced compliance and attempted forced compliance. It examines the effects of monetary rewards and punishments on self-referring attitudes and self-esteem.
