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preference for consistency

preference for consistency

a personality trait reflecting the extent to which a person desires to maintain consistency among elements in his or her cognitive system. See also cognitive dissonance; cognitive dissonance theory. [originally proposed by U.S. psychologists Robert B. Cialdini (1945–  ), Melanie R. Trost, and Jason T. Newsom (1965–  )]

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