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politics and international relations
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campaigns, elections and electoral behavior
corruption in American campaigns and elections
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communication and media studies
communication studies
communication theory
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managing people, personality, and perception
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Preferred term
cognitive dissonance
Definition
- Cognitive dissonance theory is concerned with how perception and cognition influence and are influenced by motivation and emotion. Hundreds of experiments have tested dissonance processes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Cognitive Dissonance Theory]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cognitive_dissonance
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