Dissonance theory

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In “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance,” (1957) social psychologist Leon Festinger proposes that all humans share an inherent drive to keep behaviors and principles in harmony and avoid disharmony between opposing attitudes. When a person feels a clash of their views they attempt to counteract or explain away their discomfort. In more severe cases of misalignments of an individual’s beliefs they may behave irrationally or maladaptively due to the instinctive urge to rebalance themselves. Cognitive

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

American social psychologist Leon Festinger (1919-1989), developed the theory of cognitive dissonance. The premises of this theory suggest that attitudes and behaviors will remain in harmony. Festinger believed that human beings want consistency with their thoughts and actions and attempt to lessen the tension and avoid discrepancies (Mcleod, 2014). The article by Taylor (2007) does a good job discussing the challenges between personal values, and professional values. The article explains how the

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

Article 1 Review In this article, the link between pleasure and aggression dealing with people’s choices and judgement are studied. The two groups of people are being used to test and influence the hypothesis in this article. According to Alvarado and Ramirez (2014), the two groups were of similar age, young delinquents and normal university students. One of the groups studied, showed more violence or bad behavior, while the other population is considered normal. The overall goal of the experiment

to focus on three of them; Cognitive dissonance theory, how societal and cultural norms dictate our attitudes and thoughts, and different ways of persuasion.

In such a vast world of creation choices and opposites the topic of cognitive dissonance is all but inevitable. From its pure form and early research too its expanded and evolved form in present day it has always been prevalent. In this paper i plan on evaluating this mindset and finding not only ways to solve this problem but its importance in society since its discovery. Cognitive dissonance is the concept of two opposed ideas that cause either a change in one's life beliefs or morals. This refers

the scientists Leon Festinger and his theory of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when an individual adjusts their beliefs to fit with another person’s actions. Festinger performed multiple experiments to demonstrate cognitive dissonance. One of his experiments involved a group of people who believed that the world was going to end due to a huge flood on December 21st. 1954. Festinger infiltrated this group and pretended to be a believer of the theory. This cult group was based on the end-of

Cognitive consistency theories suggest that individuals try to see their natural surroundings in ways that are basic and uncomplicated. Early consistency philosophers formulated theories of conflict, retention, and bigotry for indecisiveness by those with a controlling disposition. At the core of subjective consistency theories, is the suspicion that individuals are propelled to seek coherent attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, values, behaviors, and feelings. On the off chance that these are conflicting