Cognitive Dissonance at a glance
Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to some changes to eliminate the discomfort and restore balance.
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20. Cognitive Dissonance:
We experience discomfort when holding conflicting beliefs or attitudes. To resolve this discomfort, we might rationalize or modify our opinions. If you smoke cigarettes but know they're bad for your health, you might convince yourself that the risks are exaggerated.
Our aversion to cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is a negative, tensed emotional state that is caused by holding beliefs or behaviors that are inconsistent with one another.
Because cognitive dissonance brings discomfort, we try to escape it. There are 2 options to get rid of it: to change a ...
The cognitive dissonance theory
It suggests that holding 2 or more contradictory beliefs at the same time causes people to experience mental discomfort, which manifests as psychological stress.
And people will always seek to minimize their cognitive dissonance and the discomfort it creates.
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