A method was constructed to assess cognitive conflict. It uses a large number of a subject's beliefs and attitudes which may be connected with his personal problems. The subject rates the direction and the degree of these beliefs and attitudes and the proportion of conflict involved in them is then calculated by computer according to a model basically derived from Heider's cognitive balance theory.
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Wolf Lauterbach (1975) studied this question.
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