Cognitive Dissonance

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Overactive action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been found to be hyperactive at rest, during symptom provocation, and after commission of errors in cognitive tasks. This hyperactivity might reflect an ...
Stefan Ursu, V Andrew Stenger, M Katherine Shear, Mark R Jones, Cameron S Carter (Psychol Sci, 200307)
overactive-action-monitoring-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-evidence.asp

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Biased predecision processing.

Decision makers conduct biased predecision processing when they restructure their mental representation of the decision environment to favor one alternative before making their choice. The question of whether biased predecision processing occurs has been ...
Aaron L Brownstein (Psychol Bull, 200307)
biased-predecision-processing.asp

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Learning support for the consultation: information support and decision support should be placed in an educational framework.

BACKGROUND: Advances in information technology mean that it is now possible to provide contextually relevant, evidence-based information during the course of the consultation. As a consequence, the practitioner has to consider the new information (from ...
Paul Robinson, Ian Purves, Rob Wilson (Med Educ, 200305)
learning-support-consultation-information-support-decision-support.asp

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Academic dishonesty and attitudes towards academic dishonest acts: support for cognitive dissonance theory.

The present study examined the relation between self-reported academic dishonesty and attitudes towards dishonest academic behaviors in 244 college students. Analysis suggested that self-reported academic dishonesty and approval of academic dishonest ...
Eric A Storch, Jason B Storch (Psychol Rep, 200302)
academic-dishonesty-attitudes-towards-academic-dishonest-acts-support.asp

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Head games. The psychology of medical group financial management and the role of physician leaders.

Good practice leaders must understand the psychology of presenting and managing the financial performance of the medical group. Leaders--especially physicians--must strive to understand this psychology to shepherd the group through the various financial ...
Daniel K Zismer (MGMA Connex, 200301)
head-games-psychology-medical-group-financial-management-role.asp

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Emotional dissonance in medical social work practice.

This qualitative study examined several ecological aspects of medical social work practice that affect social workers emotional well-being. Forty-seven medical social workers from seven hospitals participated in small group interviews in which practice ...
Keith R Nelson, Joseph R Merighi (Soc Work Health Care, 2003)
emotional-dissonance-medical-social-work-practice.asp

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How does individual smoking behaviour among hospital staff influence their knowledge of the health consequences of smoking?

AIMS: This study examined associations between individual smoking habits among hospital staff and their knowledge of the health consequences of smoking and passive smoking. The a priori hypothesis was a higher level of knowledge among non-smokers ...
Ingrid Willaing, Torben Jørgensen, Lars Iversen (Scand J Public Health, 2003)
individual-smoking-behaviour-hospital-staff-influence-knowledge.asp

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The basis and relevance of emotional dignity.

The paper is a preliminary examination of the origin and role of psychological perception or "feeling" of dignity in human beings. Following Ayalas naturalistic account of morality, a sense of emotional dignity is seen as an outcome of processes of ...
David Badcott (Med Health Care Philos, 2003)
basis-relevance-emotional-dignity.asp

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Attribution retraining with sexually abused children: review of techniques.

Clinicians increasingly use empirically based cognitive-behavioral techniques in their treatment of child victims of sexual abuse. Attribution retraining is often a primary component of this work, and it involves various techniques aimed at decreasing ...
Marianne Celano, Ann Hazzard, Susan K Campbell, Claudia B Lang (Child Maltreat, 200202)
attribution-retraining-sexually-abused-children-review-techniques.asp

10.

Smoke screen: an ethnographic study of a cigar shops collective rationalization.

It is the purpose of this ethnographic study to explain why efforts from the medical establishment, the press, and friends and family are unsuccessful in persuading a group of men at a local cigar shop to stop smoking. I also seek to determine how these ...
Alan D DeSantis (Health Commun, 2002)
smoke-screen-ethnographic-study-cigar-shop-s-collective.asp