| S# | Author | Title | Sample Size | Findings | 
 
   
   | 1 | Karatepe & Aleshinloye, (2009) | Emotional dissonance and emotional exhaustion among hotel employees in Nigeria. | N=157 Managers of hotels from Abuja and Lagos (Nigeria) | The results revealed that emotional exhaustion partially mediated the effect of ED on turnover intentions. | 
 
   
   | 2 | Chau, Dahling, Levy, & Diefendorff, (2009). | A predictive study of emotional labor and turnover. | N= 998 Bank tellers. | Results indicated that ED had indirect and positive effect on turnover intention. | 
 
   
   | 3 | Mishra & Bhatnagar (2010). | Linking emotional dissonance and organizational identification to turnover intention and emotional well-being: a study of medical representatives in India. | N= 468 Medical representatives of India. | ED has a mediating effect on organizational identification, turnover intention and emotional wellbeing. | 
 
   
   | 4 | Karatepe (2011) | Do job resources moderate the effect of emotional dissonance on burnout? A study in the city of Ankara, Turkey. | N=620 Full-time frontline hotel employees in Ankara. | Reveals that ED intensifies exhaustion and disengagement. | 
 
   
   | 5 | Pugh, S. D., Groth, M., & Hennig-Thurau, T. (2011). | Willing and able to fake emotions: A closer examination of the link between emotional dissonance and employee well-being. | N= 528 frontline employees. | ED resulted in more negative outcomes i.e. higher emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfaction. | 
 
   
   | 6 | Yozgat, Calistan & Uru, (2012) | Exploring Emotional Dissonance: On Doing What You Feel and Feeling What You Do. | N=239 | Study’s result approves that ED has significant negative impact on employee wellbeing | 
 
   
   | 7 | Chu, Baker, & Murrmann, (2012). | When we are onstage, we smile: The effects of emotional labor on employee work outcomes. | N=285 Hotel full time employees. | Results indicated that the consequences of emotional exhaustion and emotional labor are associated with ED and emotional effort. | 
 
   
   | 8 | Cretua & Burcas, (2013) | Self-efficacy: A moderator of the relation between Emotional Dissonance and Counterproductive Work Behaviour. | N=147 Employees of oil and gas company in Romania. | Results revealed that increasing a person ED predicts an increase counterproductive behaviour expected from that person. | 
 
   
   | 9 | Tanford & Montgomery, (2014) | The Effects of Social Influence and Cognitive Dissonance on Travel Purchase Decisions. | N= 308 Students of the university. | After making the decision, subjects experienced dissonance. | 
 
   
   | 10 | Kenworthy, Frame, & Petree (2014). | A meta‐analytic review of the relationship between emotional dissonance and emotional exhaustion. | N=57 | Results indicated that employees with dissonance suffer from emotional exhaustion, a key component of job burnout. | 
 
   
   | 11 | Pandey & Jamwal, (2015) | Realizing the Impact of Cognitive Dissonance in Predicting Consumer Behaviour. | N=220 | The study revealed that the dissonance decreases as the customer takes more time in making a purchase decision and vice versa. | 
 
   
   | 12 | Mishra & Kumar, (2016) | Minimizing the cost of emotional dissonance at work: a multi-sample analysis. | N=468 (Medical rep)N=228 (Frontline Hotel Employees) | The study found support for the moderation effect of POS on the ED, emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. | 
 
   
   | 13 | Molino, Emanuel, Zito, Ghislieri, Gächter, ,Nosenzo, & Sefton. (2016) | Inbound Call Centers and emotional dissonance in the Job Demands – Resources Model | N=352 (CA)N=179 (INFO agents) | CA (customer assistance) agents experience greater customer verbal aggression and ED than information service agents. | 
 
   
   | 14 | Vennila, & Vivekanandan (2017) | A study on how emotional dissonance impact work exhaustion, job satisfaction and turnover intention among it’ professionals | N=246 IT professionals (India). | The results shows that ED impact work exhaustion. Perceived work load, role ambiguity, role conflict, autonomy and fairness of rewards. | 
 
   
   | 15 | Taxer & Frenzel, (2018) | Inauthentic expressions of enthusiasm: Exploring the cost of emotional dissonance in teachers. | N=67 teachers, N=1489 students. | Some teachers experience ED by expressing teaching enthusiasm even though they are experiencing a low level of teaching related enjoyment. |