ABSTRACT
For the most part, what Natalia P. Chapanis and Alphonse Chapanis offer to substitute for existing interpretations of the data of dissonance research may be described as the first half of an alternative explanation. Chapanis and Chapanis spend a large part of their review on a study performed by and replicated by A. R. Cohen, J. W. Brehm, and B. Latane demonstrating the relationship between magnitude of induced dissonance and avoidance of further dissonance. Subjects of the former group were considered to have no dissonance between their choice of side and its consequences. A partial replication of the original experiment is called for in which dissonance between performance and information contained in the graph is eliminated by modifications of the latter. Psychology appears to be ready for neodissonance theory, by whatever name theorists choose to call it, just as it has progressed to neobehaviorism and neo-Freudianism.
