Cognitive dissonance theory

“Followers make judgments about leaders and then decide whether to follow them or not. (Whitlock, 2012)”. Is it possible for a follower make or break an organization? Blanchard, A., Welbourne, J., Gilmore, D., & Bullock, A. (2009) state that understanding followers from the manager’s perspective is an important first step in determining that followership behaviors are linked to positive employee outcome. Blanchard et al (2009) conducted a quantitative study on Followership Styles and Employee Attachment

entities and the society at large. This essay is to explore how and why people struggling around in the course of accepting, rejecting and clinging to it under the theory of Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive Dissonance When we are highly aroused by

of thought of cognitive dissonance theory to the theme of violence. Cognitive dissonance theory is when there is inconsistency within the person, they tend to do things to eliminate dissonance and gain consistency with themselves. People who are in cognitive dissonance use violent acts to get back into consistency. This is shown in the movie Crash when Farhad tries to kill Daniels daughter Laura because Farhad thinks that Daniel robbed is store. Farhad being in cognitive dissonance goes to Daniels

reward, thinking it was not that risky after all. Social psychology explains this with the concept of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation that causes mental stress and discomfort because of conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviours, like when people take action that conflict with their positive self-image. The theory proposes a powerful motive to maintain cognitive consistency, which can

“Crash”: Thomas Theorem and Cognitive Dissonance The movie “Crash”, by Director and Writer Paul Haggis, follows 8 ethnically diverse families/ individuals facing the struggle of modern day racism and stereotypes created and faced in modern Los Angeles, California. These individuals take the roles of individuals living their daily lives within Los Angeles, California while facing stereotypes. The cast portrays: 2 caucasian white male police officers, an African American director and his wife, a white

Discussion The present research set out to test Nail et al (2010, March) theory that using a role-playing paradigm instead of deception as an adequate way of testing cognitive dissonance. To do this we replicated Nail et al. (2010, March) experiment using the paradigm of being stood up by Chris who was in a car accident (sufficient justification) or being stood up by Chris who received another invitation for dinner by a different friend (insufficient justification). Our findings were in support

NUDGE THEORY It is a theory that tries to understand how people think, how they make decision, and behave. However, this involves a ‘catalyst’ that helps people inprove their thinking and making decisions. This process is also involved in making people modify their choice of decision towards a more favorable one. Nudge theory is credited mainly to American academics Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein, much of their work was built on the research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, those emerged

Cognitive dissonance- cognitive dissonance is when someone does or say something that is wrong but tries to convince themselves that what they are doing is good. Usually it’s someone trying to convince mostly themself that what they are doing is “ok”. In the sentence above Stella uses cognitive dissonance when she is starting her project the week is this due, this is because she convinced herself that what she is doing is okay although it’s not because now she is most likely stressing. Diffusion

“No worries. My boss has millions of dollars. One hundred-dollar bill will make no impact in his wealth.” The janitor is then experiencing what is called cognitive dissonance because his boss rich and wealthy, making him part of the power elite, therefore justifying his actions. A television show that demonstrates the concepts of cognitive dissonance and the power elite is called Prison Break. This show tells a storyline of a man named Michael Scofield who has to save his brother Lincoln, who was put

created a theory that was drawn from the impression formation and attribution theories and developed the theory of self-perception. Self-perception is defined as follows, “Self-perception theory relies on situational and dispositional attributions similar to attribution theory” (Frymier207). Bem created this theory to help understand one’s understanding their own behavior through the same attributions that a person uses to understand someone else’s behavior. Within self-perception theory, the person