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Cognitive dissonance in faculty roles: lots of questions, few answers.

Cognitive dissonance in children: justification of effort or contrast?

Secure versus fragile high self-esteem as a predictor of verbal defensiveness: converging findings across three different markers.

Dissonance-based Interventions for the prevention of eating disorders: using persuasion principles to promote health.

Music in minor activates limbic structures: a relationship with dissonance?

Biased information search in homogeneous groups: confidence as a moderator for the effect of anticipated task requirements.

What pharmacy benefit designers need to know about perception and reality: never forget the elephant in the pharmacy.

Self-esteem differences in the effects of hypocrisy induction on behavioral intentions in the health domain.

Effectiveness of peer-led eating disorders prevention: a replication trial.

Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: long-term effects from a randomized efficacy trial.

A quasi-experimental investigation of message appeal variations on organ donor registration rates.

Practice what you preach: induced hypocrisy as an intervention strategy to reduce children's intentions to risk take on playgrounds.

Design and pilot evaluation of an Internet spit tobacco cessation program.

The practice of patient education: the theoretical perspective.

Twenty-five years of therapeutic misconception.

Hooked on a feeling: emotional labor as an occupational hazard of the post-industrial age.

Mistakes were made ... but by whom?

Effects of being a peer-leader in an eating disorder prevention program: can we further reduce eating disorder risk factors?

Left frontal cortical activation and spreading of alternatives: tests of the action-based model of dissonance.

Acculturative dissonance, ethnic identity, and youth violence.