| Autor: |
Harvey, O. J., Caldwell, Donald F., CALDWELL, D F |
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Journal of Personality; Jun59, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p125-135, 11p |
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Increasing experimental attention is being given to behavioral "side effects" resulting from attempts at attitude change. It is possible that these effects, which may accompany change in the target attitude or occur instead of it, reflect a striving on the part of the recipient to maintain an evaluation of the world which is maximally congruent with his internal standards or attitudes. When stimulus input is at variance with expectations deriving from established concepts, congruence can be maintained or restored by a change in the internal standard or by a cognitive distortion of the impinging stimuli. This distortion might serve to bring the stimuli more in line with the existing conceptual schema or serve to make them so incongruous that they can be dissociated or in some other way be evaluated as not being relevant to the concept involved. The "attitude" involved in the present study was an experimentally produced concept of a constant distance between two flashes of light, and the method of presenting the stimulus discrepancy was to introduce a new distance between the lights after the concept had been formed. |
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Complementary Index |
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