The theory of cognitive dissonance and research derived from it have yielded a rich array of insights into the mind. One of the early experiments on the theory, the classic experiment by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959), has been subjected to criticisms by scientists. Rijsman has offered novel, insightful criticisms of this classic experiment. In this article, I address these criticisms by review...

AIM In this paper, the choice of classic grounded theory will be discussed and justified in the context of the first author's PhD research. BACKGROUND The methodological discussion takes place within the context of PhD research entitled: Development of a stakeholder-led framework for a structured education programme that will prepare nurses and healthcare assistants to deliver a psychosocial ...

Classic matching theory, which is based on Herrnstein's (1961) original matching equation and includes the well-known quantitative law of effect, is almost certainly false. The theory is logically inconsistent with known experimental findings, and experiments have shown that its central constant-k assumption is not tenable. Modern matching theory, which is based on the power function version of...

A (1,-1)-matrix will be called a bent type matrix if each row and each column are bent sequences. A similar description can be found in Carlisle M. in which the authors use the properties of bent type matrices to construct a class of bent functions. In this paper we give a general method to construct bent type matrices and show that the bent sequence obtained from a bent type matrix is a genera...

The deposition behaviors of carboxylate-modified polystyrene latex microspheres (six sizes ranging from 0.1 to 2.0 μm) in packed porous media (soda-lime glass beads) were examined under a variety of environmentally relevant pore fluid velocities (4-8 m-day-1) in the presence of an energy barrier to deposition. Hyperexponential profiles of retained colloids were observed for all microsphere size...