Festinger defines dissonance through nonfitting relations among cognitions and proposes pressure to reduce it and avoid increases. The publisher page identifies the Stanford reissue; the text identifies Row, Peterson as the original 1957 publisher.
In short, I am proposing that dissonance, that is, the existence of nonfitting relations among cognitions, is a motivating factor in its own right.
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Festinger defines dissonance through nonfitting relations among cognitions and proposes pressure to reduce it and avoid increases. The publisher page identifies the Stanford reissue; the text identifies Row, Peterson as the original 1957 publisher. Bearing on the claim: supports. Verification note: Full book text and Stanford publisher page opened. The excerpt is from Chapter 1, not a later secondary definition.