Cognitive dissonance and psychotherapy: The role of effort justification in inducing weight loss

1985/03/01 by Danny Axsom, Joel Cooper · 6 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive dissonance #Cognitive therapy #Control (management) #Developmental psychology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Obesity #Overweight #Pain Management and Placebo Effect #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications #Social psychology #Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy #Weight loss

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-1031(85)90012-5

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