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Dissonance theory, self‐perception and the bogus pipeline
Author(s) -
Guild Paul D.,
Strickland Lloyd H.,
Barefoot John C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420070405
Subject(s) - cognitive dissonance , self perception theory , psychology , social psychology , self justification , perception , attitude change , subject (documents) , incentive , compliance (psychology) , neuroscience , library science , computer science , economics , microeconomics
Studied attitude change following counter‐attitudinal advocacy where there was little incentive for subject compliance in an attempt to compare dissonance and self‐perception theory predictions. The extent of attitude change was determined either by self‐report or by having subjects predict their own true attitudes purportedly monitored by the experimenter using a ‘bogus pipeline’. Forty‐eight male and female subjects, students from an introductory Psychology course, were invited to take part in a study of Current Campus Issues. They wrote a short statement that argued against an issue for which they had previously held a positive attitude. Results indicate that there was a significant attitude change in both conditions (p < .003). Attitude change under these circumstances is more successfully explained by the self‐perception theory than dissonance theory.