Elliot Aronson

Biographic Data

ID568000
NAMEElliot Aronson
GIVEN NAMESElliot
FAMILY NAMEAronson
SIGNATUREARONSON E
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS63
TOTAL CITATIONS750
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX17

  • Dissonance, hypocrisy, and the self-concept.

    Elliot AronsonCHAPTERCognitive Dissonance2019

  • Social Psychology

    Elliot Aronson, Timothy D Wilson et al.BOOKSocial Psychology2015

  • The Art of Laboratory Experimentation

    Open AccessTimothy D Wilson, Elliot Aronson et al.OTHERHandbook of Social Psychology2010

    2.1 Why do Laboratory Experiments? 2.2 Planning and Conducting a Laboratory Experiment 2.3 Concluding Comments

  • Fear, Denial, and Sensible Action in the Face of Disasters

    Elliot AronsonARTICLESocial research2008Cited by: 1

    Elliot Aronson Fear, Denial, and Sensible Action in the Face of Disasters I MUST BEGIN THIS ESSAY WITH A CONFESSION: I AM NOT AN EXPERT on disasters. I have not studied disasters directly, nor do I know m uch about the m ajor differences am ong various kinds of disasters. W hat I do know som ething about is how the hum an m ind works; how people think, feel, and behave in a wide variety of complex situations (Aronson, 1999, 2008; Tavris and Arons…

  • The power of self-persuasion

    Elliot AronsonARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1999Cited by: 44References: 1

    Self-persuasion is an indirect antecedents of interpersonal attraction which entails placing of people in situations where they are motivated to persuade themselves to change their own attitudes or behavior compared with traditional direct techniques of persuasion. The phenomenon of self-persuasion has the ability to affect long-term changes in attitudes and behavior. In this paper the author reviews the extent of his research on self-persuasion …

  • When exemplification fails: Hypocrisy and the motive for self-integrity

    Jeff Stone, Andrew W Wiegand et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1997Cited by: 25

    Two experiments investigated how the dissonance that follows a hypocritical behavior is reduced when 2 alternatives are available; a direct strategy (changing behavior to make it less hypocritical) or an indirect strategy (the affirmation of an unrelated positive aspect of the self). In Experiment 1, after dissonance was aroused by hypocrisy, significantly more participants chose to reduce dissonance directly, despite the clear availability of a …

  • Persuasion and Politics: The Social Psychology of Public Opinion

    Timothy C Brock, Laura A Brannon et al.ARTICLEPolitical Psychology1995

  • Inducing Hypocrisy as a Means of Encouraging Young Adults to Use Condoms

    Open AccessJeff Stone, Elliot Aronson et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…1994

    This experiment applied a new twist on cognitive dissonance theory to the problem of AIDS prevention among sexually active young adults. Dissonance was created after a proattitudinal advocacy by inducing hypocrisy-having subjects publicly advocate the importance of safe sex and then systematically making the subjects mindful of their own past failures to use condoms. It was predicted that the induction of hypocrisy would motivate subjects to redu…

  • Using Cognitive Dissonance to Encourage Water Conservation 1

    Open AccessCHRIS ANN DICKERSON, Ruth Thibodeau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Social…1992

    In a field experiment on water conservation, we aroused dissonance in patrons of the campus recreation facility by making them feel hypocritical about their showering habits. Using a 2 × 2 factorial design, we manipulated subjects “‘mindfulness” that they had sometimes wasted water while showering, and then varied whether they made a “public commitment” urging other people to take shorter showers. The “hypocrisy” condition‐in which subjects made …

  • The Return of the Repressed: Dissonance Theory Makes a Comeback

    Elliot AronsonARTICLEPsychological Inquiry1992

    In 1957, Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance burst on the scene and revitalized social psychology with its deft blend of cognition and motivation. For the next two decades, the theory inspired an extraordinary amount of exciting research leading to a burgeoning of knowledge about human social behavior. The theory has been referred to as "the most important single development in social psychology to date" (Jones, 1976, p. x). But, by t…

  • Making research apply: High stakes public policy in a regulatory environment

    Dane Archer, T F Pettigrew et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1992

  • Making research apply: High stakes public policy in a regulatory environment

    Dane Archer, T F Pettigrew et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1992

  • Overcoming denial and increasing the intention to use condoms through the induction of hypocrisy

    Elliot Aronson, Charles Fried et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1991Cited by: 21

    Feelings of hypocrisy were induced in college students to increase condom use. Hypocrisy was created by making subjects mindful of their past failure to use condoms and then having them persuade others about the importance of condoms for AIDS prevention. The induction of hypocrisy decreased denial and led to greater intent to improve condom use relative to the control conditions. The implications of these findings for AIDS prevention are discusse…

  • Energy conservation behavior: The difficult path from information to action

    Mark Costanzo, Dane Archer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1986

  • Energy conservation behavior: The difficult path from information to action

    Mark Costanzo, Dane Archer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1986

  • Energy Use: The Human Dimension

    Michael G Lacy, Paul C Stern et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

    This book discusses the major social and political components of energy policy. By putting energy in its human context, the report generates new policy options for solving specific energy problems and suggests broad new approaches to energy policy. Commissioned by the Department of Energy, the book demonstrates the folly of making energy decisions without a basic understanding of the continuing social conflict over the nature of energy and the ma…

  • What Happened to the Energy Crisis? Sorting out the Future

    Stephen W Sawyer, William U Chandler et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1986

  • Antecedents, correlates, and consequences of sexual jealousy

    Open AccessAyala Pines, Ayala Malach Pines et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality1983

    The paper presents a social‐psychological approach to the empirical study of sexual jealousy, after surveying the philosophical, sociological, anthropological, psychoanalytic, and nonscientific literature on the subject. The social‐psychological approach focuses on the environmental and situational factors that cause people to act in a jealous manner. One hundred and three men and women varying in age, length of relationship, and relationship sty…

  • A social psychological perspective on energy conservation in residential buildings

    Suzanne Yates, Suzanne M Yates et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1983

  • A social psychological perspective on energy conservation in residential buildings

    Suzanne Yates, Suzanne M Yates et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1983

  • Combatting burnout

    Open AccessAyala Pines, Ayala Malach Pines et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review1983Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Attributions for success and failure after cooperation, competition, or team competition

    Open AccessCookie White Stephan, Cookie Stephan et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…1979References: 13

  • Attributions to success and failure after cooperative or competitive interaction

    Open AccessCookie White Stephan, Cookie Stephan et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…1978Cited by: 2References: 8

  • Readings About the Social Animal (Second edition)

    Carl W Backman, Elliot Aronson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1978

  • Methods of Research in Social Psychology

    Royce Singleton, J Merrill Carlsmith et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1977