"There cannot ever be too many good books about Schoenberg, and so it is a special pleasure to welcome Constructive Dissonance, which is far beyond just 'good.'

Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.

Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential soc

Tell any smoker that his habit is unhealthy, and he most likely will agree. What mental process does a person go through when he or she continues to do somethin

This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.