Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential soc

Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.

′Dr. Joel Cooper has been at the very forefront of research on dissonance theory for decades now. In this book, he provides a brilliant and engagingly-written

This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.

The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements tha