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the very definition of cognitive dissonance
Posted on: January 29, 2019 at 11:03:36 CT
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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.
His manner of removing it:
Acquire new information that outweighs the dissonant beliefs.
For example, thinking smoking causes lung cancer will cause dissonance if a person smokes.
However, new information such as “research has not proved definitely that smoking causes lung cancer” may reduce the dissonance.
Edited by 90Tiger at 11:04:54 on 01/29/19
His manner of removing it:
Acquire new information that outweighs the dissonant beliefs.
For example, thinking smoking causes lung cancer will cause dissonance if a person smokes.
However, new information such as “research has not proved definitely that smoking causes lung cancer” may reduce the dissonance.
Edited by 90Tiger at 11:04:54 on 01/29/19
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