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Leon Festinger - Cognitive Dissonance, Social Psychology, Theory: While at the University of Minnesota, Festinger read about a cult that believed that the end of the world was at hand. A woman, “Mrs. Keech,” reported receiving messages from extraterrestrial aliens that the world would end in a great flood on a specific date. She attracted a group of followers who left jobs, schools, and ...
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Nov 11, 2020 · The Original Dissonance Theory and Related Research. In Festinger’s original formulation of dissonance theory the basic premise is that (a) people will experience psychological discomfort (i.e., negative affect) when related cognitions are perceived to be in conflict (i.e., dissonant); (b) this will motivate people to reduce the aversive feeling and restore consonance; and (c) people will ...
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Oct 24, 2023 · Critical Evaluation. Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. This produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance. For example, when people smoke (behavior) and they know that ...
- Festinger's (1957) cognitive dissonance theory suggests that we have an inner drive to hold all our attitudes and behavior in harmony and avoid dis...
- Notice that dissonance theory does not state that these modes of dissonance reduction will actually work, only that individuals who are in a state...
- When someone is forced to do (publicly) something they (privately) really don't want to do, dissonance is created between their cognition (I didn't...
Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist who originated the theory of cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory.The rejection of the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology by demonstrating the inadequacy of stimulus-response conditioning accounts of human behavior is largely attributed to his theories and research. [1]
As presented by Festinger in 1957, dissonance theory began by postulating that pairs of cognitions (elements of knowledge) can be relevant or irrelevant to one another. If two cognitions are relevant to one another, they are either consonant or dissonant. Two cognitions are consonantif one follows from the other, and they are dissonantif the ...
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Nov 7, 2022 · History of Cognitive Dissonance . Leon Festinger first proposed the theory of cognitive dissonance, centered on how people try to reach internal consistency. He suggested that people have an inner need to ensure that their beliefs and behaviors are consistent. Inconsistent or conflicting beliefs lead to disharmony, which people strive to avoid.
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Jan 1, 2020 · Cognitive dissonance was defined by Leon Festinger as an aversive psychological drive state that when experienced we are motivated to reduce (Festinger 1957).Dissonance is the result of inconsistency between two or more cognitions, and these cognitions may represent one’s attitudes, thoughts about one’s behavior, or other stored information.
