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I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this blog post. 2019 book on cognitive dissonance theory, published by the American Psychological Association Source: APA This post is to announce my new edited ...

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I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this post. My newly edited book on dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology, is an update of the book Jud Mills and I ...