Book Reviews - Spring 1997, Volume 110, Number 1

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. By Leon Festinger. Evanston, IL: Row Peterson, 1957. 291pp. Reviewed by Elliot Aronson. pp. 127-137.

Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. By Robert D. kavanaugh, Betty Zimmerman, and Stephen Fein (Eds.). Mawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 384 pp. Reviewed by Richard S Lazarus. pp. 137-142.

Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes. By David C. Rubin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 385 pp. Reviewed by Steven Moelter, Melissa Lamar, Raquelle Mesholam, and Thomas Hewett. pp. 142-146.

Statistics as Principled Argument. By Robert P. Abelson. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995. 232 pp. Reviewed by Geoffrey R. Loftus and Jennifer E. McLean. pp. 146-153.

Stories from the heart: Teachers and students researching their literacy lives. By Richard J. Meyer. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. 165 pp. Reviewed by Gail E. Burnaford. pp. 153-157.


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