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Beliefs can be modified through cognitive dissonance and targeted persuasive messaging
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Extensive psychological literature and empirical studies support the claim that beliefs can be altered through cognitive dissonance and targeted persuasive messaging.

Evidence for · 9
First-Person, Third-Person, or Bystander? Exploring the Persuasive Influence of Perspective in Mental Health Narratives
2021 · cited by 18
Evaluates how targeted mental health narratives produce persuasive outcomes on beliefs.
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Persuasive communication systems: a machine learning approach to predict the effect of linguistic styles and persuasion techniques
2023 · cited by 13
Examines machine learning prediction of persuasion techniques affecting individuals.
Extending Efforts to Move Cigarette and e-Cigarette Beliefs: Message Exposure and Belief Structures
2018 · cited by 12
Demonstrates that targeted persuasive messages successfully modify audience beliefs.
Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory
2023 · cited by 8
Presents a theory of persuasive message effects operating via belief cluster modification.
Cognitive Dissonance, Attitude Change and Ways to Reduce Cognitive Dissonance: A Review Study
2020 · cited by 6
Reviews cognitive dissonance as a state that motivates attitude and belief changes.
Attitude Change and Cognitive Dissonance
1965 · cited by 2
Provides empirical support for cognitive dissonance explaining attitude/belief change after propaganda.
Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonance
cited by 0
Reference article covering this claim directly
OpenAIRE: Sorting through chickens and eggs: A longitudinal examination of the associations between attitudes, norms, and sexual risk behavior.
2011 · cited by 0
Discusses how dissonance and self-perception theories relate to attitude/belief change.
OpenAIRE: Interplay between different forms of power and meritocratic considerations shapes fairness perceptions
2022 · cited by 0
Shows people minimize cognitive dissonance by altering interpretations to fit behavior.
Everything we examined (22)
  1. Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonancereferencesupports
  2. Book: Psychology for Medicine and Healthcarereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  3. Book: Organizational Behaviorreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  4. Book: The Handbook of School Psychologyreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Jones & Bartlett Learning: Behavior theory in health promotion practice and researchreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatryreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Pearson Education Canada: Fundamentals of Canadian Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice, Second Canadian Editionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Prentice Hall: Fundamentals of Canadian nursing : concepts, process and practicereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Industrial Psychiatry Journal: The appraisal-distress relationship of auditory hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia: The moderating role of metacognitive beliefspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. BMJ Open: Unravelling clinicians’ shared decision-making adoption: a qualitative exploration through the lens of diffusion of innovations theorypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. OpenAIRE: The appraisal-distress relationship of auditory hallucinations in patients with schizophreniapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. OpenAIRE: Sorting through chickens and eggs: A longitudinal examination of the associations between attitudes, norms, and sexual risk behavior.peer-reviewedsupports
  13. OpenAIRE: In the Field: Cognitive Therapy in Malaysiapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. OpenAIRE: Interplay between different forms of power and meritocratic considerations shapes fairness perceptionspeer-reviewedsupports
  15. OpenAIRE: Unravelling clinicians’ shared decision-making adoption: a qualitative exploration through the lens of diffusion of innovations theorypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. OpenAIRE: Unravelling clinicians’ shared decision-making adoptionpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. First-Person, Third-Person, or Bystander? Exploring the Persuasive Influence of Perspective in Mental Health Narrativespeer-reviewedsupports
  18. Persuasive communication systems: a machine learning approach to predict the effect of linguistic styles and persuasion techniquespeer-reviewedsupports
  19. Extending Efforts to Move Cigarette and e-Cigarette Beliefs: Message Exposure and Belief Structurespeer-reviewedsupports
  20. Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theorypeer-reviewedsupports
  21. Cognitive Dissonance, Attitude Change and Ways to Reduce Cognitive Dissonance: A Review Studypeer-reviewedsupports
  22. Attitude Change and Cognitive Dissonancepeer-reviewedsupports
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