Cognitive Dissonance And The Mandela Effect

Cognitive dissonance occurs when a person is in a state of tension when they hold two cognitions being (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and opinions.) Dissonance produces a sort of discomfort that ranges from deep anguish to not sleeping at night, until a solution is found (Aboriginal). The policies that are put in to place for safety, are often turned in to a discriminatory act. Examples of discriminatory practices that often occur in our society and communities are (gender discrimination, race & ethnicity, and mental & or physical disability). Many of the discussion is based on intent and result. Discrimination exists when there is clear intent to treat groups differently. For example, in “stop and frisk: if an officer chooses to purposely stop and ‘violently’ frisk a “Hispanic or African American” without context that is considered discrimination. There are many racial disparities in the US criminal justice system. Racial minorities are more likely to be discriminated upon. There’s a chance that the officers have an unconscious bias regarding race.

A lot of people believe that the timeline of our universe and another universe cross, which is what causes little things to change and a large number of people remember things happening or written a certain way (Collective False Memories: What's Behind the 'Mandela Effect'?” The Crux, 16 Feb. 2017). This also causes people to believe that were being programmed by computers and we only think that we’re real because of how advanced the species that is controlling us is and what causes the effect are glitches in the computer (youtube video, “Is the Mandela Effect Real”). This conspiracy can all depend on a person's personal beliefs of more intellectual species or more. The conspiracy of the mandela effect and how its just a glitch in the computer could possibly be true. At first thought it doesn’t sound reasonable, but there are a lot of things scientists don’t know. Our rovers and satellites had gone pretty far, but we could have missed so many things and not know it. There are more galaxies in the universe and we have no idea what's in them, not all things are simple people just need to think beyond their own world because there's so much left to discover out in the universe and people can’t say it's ridiculous because know one truly knows what causes these “glitches”.

The Mandela Effect is a relatively recent conspiracy theory that has been continuously ‘proven’ by internet forums. The Mandela Effect was first proposed by Fiona Broome, who believes that false memories of events or conversations are glimpses into parallel universes. Normally these events are quite major and many people hold

“Hundreds and thousands of Africans are thrown into jail each year under pass laws. Even worse than this is the fact that pass laws keep husband and wife apart and lead to the breakdown of family life.”(Nelson Mandela- April 20,1964 “An Ideal in Which I Am Prepared to Die) This quote comes from a well known African leader Nelson Mandela who fought to help his people in South Africa against apartheid, A set of laws which allowed whites to have all the power in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. He explains in the quote the mistreatment of his fellow Black, Native Africans forced out of homes and jobs due to the white government. Nelson Mandela and many other great leaders used certain rhetorical techniques to convince their people that apartheid is negatively affecting their country. The rhetorical techniques used by Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Steve Biko help to persuade their audiences of their messages of the negative effects of apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko were both activists in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, while Desmond Tutu is an Archbishop who created TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission). Nelson Mandela soon became the president of Africa, Steve Biko was murdered by police, Archbishop Desmond Tutu continued helping the truth behind apartheid get out so South Africans can have peace. The rhetorical techniques used in Nelson Mandela’s “An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die” were pathos which is used to persuade a reader by making them feel emotional for the cause as if it is important to them as well which is an appeal to emotion, ethos to credit himself for his hard work which is the appeal to credibility , and logos a logical apply which is using facts about how it’s affecting them, Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s “Forgiveness is Liberating” also uses pathos while applying repetition, the technique of repeating a phrase to persuade the reader that what they are saying is correct and anecdote which is to tell the reader a story of the event to convince them, while Steve Biko’s “Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity” also as Nelson Mandela’s “An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die” applied to logic and used the appeal to credibility.

But why does this happen? Why do we all remember the same wrong information? First we should start with the history of Mandela Effects.

What gives people the values and ideologies they hold so dear as adults? It all begins with their first role models. The first role models for children are their parents. It is from their first role models children begin to cognitively form, develop, and learn their first ideologies and values, which shapes who they are and what they believe as children. They start to develop their first political ideologies from their parents. Naturally, they follow the religiosity of their parents. They learn many of their behaviors and attitudes from their parents. However, as these children grow older there will eventually be a time when these ideologies and values fall into question, especially when two conflicting beliefs upset the inner harmonious

A fascinating and popular false memory that many people share is from a famous Star Wars scene. “Luke, I am your father” is a well-known phrase from the film but people are starting to realize that’s not what Darth Vader says. Darth Vader says “No, I am your father” which brings up the question why do so many people remember the wrong line? People got angry over this misremembering because it’s such a simple example and there is absolutely no explanation for this besides relating it to the Mandela Effect.The most known representation of the Mandela Effect relates to children’s book series and animated television show The Berenstain/Berenstein Bears. A lot of people distinctly remembering growing up with the series with the title bring called The Berenstein Bears, not The Berenstain Bears. With books and tapes produced with different spellings, it is proof that something happened. It’s not just a bunch of people with false memories, something interesting is going on here, but nobody knows what the cause of all of this is. Those who experience the Mandela Effect may have moved between parallel

After reading chapter five I noticed cognitive dissonance throughout a large portion of the book. Cognitive dissonance was described in class as being a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. A good example of this was found on page 182 where the author writes about how we all tell our self that African Americans “deserve” all of this even though we know, but do not want to acknowledge that white Americans are less likely to be convicted of the same crime done by blacks. Cognitive dissonance applies here because we know that this mass incarceration is not fair or morally right to do, however, our behavior does not try to stop it from happening. Instead of doing what our beliefs say is right we try to convince ourselves that it is the African Americans fault that they are

Leon Festinger shared his brilliance with the world when he, opposing all previous psychological behaviorist work, created the Cognitive Dissonance Theory. In his own words, he quickly sums up this quite complex theory: "If you change a person’s behavior, his thoughts and feelings will change to minimize the dissonance" (Groenveld, 1999, p.1). In order to decode this dense statement, we must first be aware that Festinger held to be true that humans have a deep abiding need in their psyche to be consistent in our attitudes and behaviors; we want to feel in agreement and unified in thought and action. Inner harmony sounds good to everyone, and so it was Festinger’s view that when we feel a disharmony, or

Science fiction has brought many things to the human race. Imagination, scientific breakthroughs, and perhaps one of the most shocking scientific theories, the theory of multiple, or parallel, universes. According to science the universe came into being around 13.7 billion years ago after a catastrophic event called The Big Bang occurred, however throughout many years scientists have wondered whether our universe was the only one created.

The show, ChoreoProject, was presented by sjDanceco and presented various types of dance performances from classical to contemporary works. The piece that I enjoyed from this show was Cognitive Dissonance. In this dance piece, Erwin Columbus both choreographed and was the dancer. Erwin Columbus used music from Kerry Muzzey for his piece. In Cognitive Dissonance, he told a story of himself having negative, inconsistent thoughts and his journey of fighting off those thoughts from his mind. With fast and dramatic movements along with intense music, Columbus was able to grasp my attention and teach me how it feels to have negative, inconsistent thoughts that can negatively control one's body.

According to Cooper (2011), confirmation biases have set in with the US tending to ignore engagement with the conflicting information. Instead, the US has chosen to instead look upon other factors to update in terms of the information that conforms its pre-existing attitudes. Accordingly, the nation has resulted in motivated reasoning where it views new evidence as consistent with their pre-existing views. This is all the more indicative of the nation avoiding cognitive dissonance. The Obama administration has tried to avoid the regional battle in the Middle East where Iran is poised to become a central player. So the US surreptitiously supports Iran in fighting the common enemy in Isis while also working to contain Iran’s efforts to expand their influence in the area that seems contradictory. What the situation

Transitional/main idea sentence: Michael is not alone. He is one of the millions of people who have been affected by shared false memories, or the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect occurs when a large number of people misremember a fact or event. This is different then a false memory, because a false memory is when only one or two people experience a memory that never happened, while the Mandela Effect is when many people experience the same alternate memory.

Nelson Mandela the only African student at the University of Witwatersrand and often faced racism. He befriended people of all race, religion and beliefs and joined the ANC (African National Congress) and was a very active member. He supported the views of Anton Lembede about Africans being independent in their own politics. Mandela was one of the many delegates that said for the ANC to have a youth wing and the ANCYL was created in 1944 on Easter. Mandela later was appointed secretary of the ANCYL after Lembede died (due to sickness) and Peter Mda was a declared president of the ANCYL. Mandela disagreed with Mda’s approach on cooperating with communists and non-blacks and in 1947 and supported an unsuccessful move to expel communists from the ANCYL since their belief was greatly considered un-African. That same year Mandela was elected to the executive committee of the Transvaal ANC and forced the resignation of C.S. Ramohanoe for cooperating with Indians and communists.

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