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OperaLover on July 22, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Motivation for Behavior Change, Cognitive Dissonan...

As I remember, the main difference between "attribution theory" and "dissonance theory" is that dissonance theory postulates a motivation or drive to reduce dissonance between different types of information...

Whereas AT just postulates different information - something to think about for IT-type folks...

messel on July 22, 2009 [–]

I see all types of applications (software, IT, startups!) for some basic familiarity with social/behavioral psychology.

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