Cognitive Dissonance and Recall of Interrupted and Completed Tasks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13669366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kuo-Shu Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kuo‐shu Yang (University of Illinois System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-75 |
| Publication date | 1971-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1971.29.1.63 |
| OpenAlex | W1994963903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
The dissonance view of interruption was the basis of a prediction that volition for task commitment and expectation of task completion would affect differential recall of interrupted and completed tasks. 140 university students were randomly assigned to 4 treatment combinations of the 2 independent variables and individually asked to perform 20 paper-and-pencil tasks, half of which were interrupted. It was found that volition and expectation were related to recall of interrupted, but not completed, tasks in an interactive way. That is, higher volition led to better recall of interrupted tasks under low expectation while there was no differential effect under higher expectation. The interactive results, taken as a whole, suggested an inverted-U relation between magnitude of dissonance and recall of interrupted tasks
Affect (linguistics · Cognition · Cognitive dissonance · Cognitive psychology · Free recall · Recall · Recall test · Task (project management · Volition (linguistics · Communication · Mind wandering and attention · Personal Information Management and User Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Team Dynamics and Performance
Explorations in cognitive dissonance.
The effect of dissonance arousal on the recall of failure stimuli 1
Recall of Interrupted and Non‐interrupted Tasks as a Function of Experimentally Induced Anxiety and Motivational Relevance of the Task Stimuli 1
Experimental Studies in Psychodynamics
Energizing (dynamogenic) effect of cognitive dissonance on task performance
Retention of affective material
Goal Tensions and Recall
Energizing effects of cognitive dissonance upon dominant and subordinate responses
Recall and pleasantness of balanced and unbalanced cognitive structures
Personality determinants of repressive and obsessive reactions to failure-stress
Repression and guilt in relation to aggression
Volunteering and the recall of interrupted tasks
Memory for completed and incompleted tasks as a function of personality
Predicting the direction of selective recall
Psychological defenses and "ego strength" in the recall of completed and incompleted tasks
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |