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The Impact of the Antitobacco Norm on the Selected Mode of Cognitive Dissonance Reduction

  1. Dimitri Voisin1,*,
  2. Jeff Stone2,
  3. Maja Becker3

Article first published online: 20 DEC 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00981.x

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Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volume 43, Issue 1, pages 57–67, January 2013

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Voisin, D., Stone, J. and Becker, M. (2013), The Impact of the Antitobacco Norm on the Selected Mode of Cognitive Dissonance Reduction. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43: 57–67. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00981.x

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  1. 1

    University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

  2. 2

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  3. 3

    University of Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France

*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dimitri Voisin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, CA 93106-9660, USA. E-mail: dimitrivoisin2003@yahoo.fr

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