General Readings on Cognitive Theory


 

Reading

Section

1

Heider, F. (1946). “Attitudes and cognitive organization”. Journal of Psychology, 21, 107-112

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2

Festinger, Leon & Carlsmith, James M. (1959). "Cognitive consequences of forced compliance". Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210.

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Kelley, Harold H., “The Process of Causal Attribution”, American Psychologist, Feb 1973, 107-128.

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Cook, Karen S., G. A. Fine, and J. S. House., 1995. Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon  Ch 3-4