• According to the American social psychologist Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, disconfirmed expectancies create a state of psychological discomfort because the outcome contradicts expectancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, which would be published the following year, predicted that the failure of the prophecy would not break the cult. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, the believer is subject to a large amount of cognitive dissonance: "I believe something that is not true. (wikipedia.org)
  • What is Cognitive Dissonance? (alleydog.com)
  • What you are experiencing in this situation is what social psychologists call cognitive dissonance. (alleydog.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance theory was first proposed by Leon Festinger. (alleydog.com)
  • He defined cognitive dissonance as the psychological tension or discomfort we experience when faced with two conflicting cognitions. (alleydog.com)
  • The basic assumption of cognitive dissonance theory is that humans have an innate need for consistency. (alleydog.com)
  • In Festinger's view, cognitive dissonance functions much like a drive. (alleydog.com)
  • Just as how hunger motivates people to eat in order to reduce their hunger, cognitive dissonance drives individuals to act in ways that will reduce their discomfort. (alleydog.com)
  • Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance was first published in 1957, but the event that inspired him to develop the theory occurred more than two decades before his book release. (alleydog.com)
  • This initial idea that people may change their beliefs to justify how they feel is what later blossomed into cognitive dissonance theory. (alleydog.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that if an expected disaster does not occur, people who were convinced that it would occur would experience dissonance or uneasiness. (alleydog.com)
  • They quite sincerely abhor racism yet exhibit a form of it, a classic example of what is known as cognitive dissonance: they have conflicting attitudes which, unmanipulated, would produce considerable discomfort. (counterpunch.org)
  • Then the definitions of cognitive dissonance, the engine of "self-justification. (blogspot.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs whenever a person holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent, such as "Smoking is a dumb thing to do because it could kill me" and "I smoke two packs a day. (blogspot.com)
  • It's basically one that's called "cognitive dissonance. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance is a feeling of discomfort that appears when we have in mind two ideas or beliefs that contradict each other and to which we give importance. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
  • In fact, we usually do a lot of fiddling" to make the cognitive dissonance go away. (virtualpsychcentre.com)
  • How cognitive dissonance plays out and why it's a normal unconscious process. (unfuckyourbrain.com)
  • A sense of cognitive dissonance often defines people's relationship with fast fashion, as they perceive it 'hypocritical' to sit in a Zara shirt and read about its harms on the environment and unethical labour practices. (dohanews.co)
  • Cognitive dissonance emerges when there is a conflict between what we expect and what we get. (beyondbetter.io)
  • When we behave differently than we believe we should, or our employees fail to produce a certain result, or we realize we shouted at a peer…they all create cognitive dissonance. (beyondbetter.io)
  • This paper explains the significance of the relationship between emotional intelligence and cognitive dissonance. (ukessays.com)
  • A person with a higher level of emotional intelligence is subject to stronger feelings of cognitive dissonance due to the fact that they are intelligent enough to recognize and question the inconsistencies in everyday life. (ukessays.com)
  • Through sources, it has been established that one's reaction to cognitive dissonance determines their emotional intelligence. (ukessays.com)
  • There are three ways to handle cognitive dissonance in order to minimize discomfort: change one's beliefs, change one's actions, or rationalize. (ukessays.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance is the state of conflict within one's own mind, when one's mind disagrees with itself. (ukessays.com)
  • Whereas cognitive dissonance is a dispute within one's mind, emotional intelligence is the ability to process and sense the emotions of one's self and others. (ukessays.com)
  • Both of these theories are beneficial to each other because one's response to cognitive dissonance is a direct reflection of one's emotional intelligence. (ukessays.com)
  • The challenge for Trinity may be adequately explained through cognitive dissonance. (trinitynews.ie)
  • It's called cognitive dissonance, where people do what they feel compelled to do by outside forces in order to avoid stress on a subconscious level. (newstarget.com)
  • Dissonance and discomfort: Does a simple cognitive inconsistency evoke a negative affective state? (youmewriters.com)
  • Immediately, you are going to suffer some cognitive dissonance , the psychological discomfort that people feel when their minds entertain two contradictory concepts at the same time. (utexas.edu)
  • When the apocalypse did not happen as scheduled, naturally some cognitive dissonance occurred: (1) Our leader received a message from aliens and told me that the earth was going to end and aliens would spirit me away to planet Clarion, and (2) Nothing happened. (utexas.edu)
  • While some posters rejected outright those whose tests did not meet the group's accepted definition of racial purity, most responders, likely realizing that white nationalists are a small minority of folks who need all the members they can get, looked for ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance without outright rejecting those who had flunked their DNA tests. (utexas.edu)
  • These responses embodied some mixture of cognitive dissonance, the self-serving bias, and the confirmation bias. (utexas.edu)
  • I tell myself it is better late than never, but nonetheless I still feel the cognitive dissonance that I carried with me during those years. (rabble.ca)
  • I'm often able to ignore facts that produce psychological discomfort. (projectworldview.org)
  • Add to this the fact that the untrained brain/mind cannot discern the difference between biological threat to the continuance of life and psychological discomfort. (metastock.com)
  • This is a distinct problem in trading because there is always uncertainty and, therefore, psychological discomfort). (metastock.com)
  • Método: esta es una revisión de literatura integradora, realizada en las bases de datos VHL (LILACS, BDENF, MEDLINE) y PUBMED de junio a julio de 2018, con un marco de tiempo de cinco años. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dissonance occurs when our thoughts and/or actions clash (e.g. thinking you are a kind person but refusing to give money to the poor). (alleydog.com)
  • Music is obsessive and discomfort seems leading to madness, then tension melts in a desperate invocation. (progarchives.com)
  • Quite likely, you would experience feelings of discomfort because what you now know-"Nobody wanted me at the party"-conflicts with what you previously thought-"Everyone likes me. (alleydog.com)
  • Aviary is a fortress for listeners - a refuge awaits if you can negotiate its drawbridge of harmony and dissonance. (thequietus.com)
  • Our harmony and our dissonance. (hnn.us)
  • Once aroused, this dissonance would need to be resolved in the minds of the individuals. (alleydog.com)
  • It would seem the Ghost of Michael Madigan Past still haunts the hallowed halls of the Legislature, wiping minds clean of any discomforting memories of utility corruption or $3.05 billion nuclear bailouts - replacing them with happy thoughts of "clean, green, climate fighting, low-cost, built-on-time nuclear power, for sure! (neis.org)
  • There is a discomfort with what many people perceive as conflicts. (stepbeyond.eu)
  • This unconscious process is normal, but when we want to learn to change this process, to allow the discomfort of being challenged, mental flexibility is what allows us to do so. (unfuckyourbrain.com)
  • Robert Gifford , a renowned environmental psychologist, describes the phenomena as "the mental discomfort created by holding more than one conflicting belief at once. (dohanews.co)
  • This is much more than a "period of mental discomfort. (newstarget.com)
  • A mature person deals with discomfort and does not gossip. (targetteal.com)
  • Rarely is the mind that brings a person to trading going to be the mind that produces success in trading. (metastock.com)
  • Intellectual dissonance is what a person goes through when discovering that the way they viewed another was not how that individual happens to be. (performingartsallies.org)
  • Most smokers manage to reduce dissonance in many such ingenious, if self-deluding, ways. (blogspot.com)
  • In this example, the most direct way for a smoker to reduce dissonance is by quitting. (blogspot.com)
  • But if she has tried to quit and failed, now she must reduce dissonance by convincing herself that smoking isn't really so harmful, that smoking is worth the risk because it helps her relax or prevents her from gaining weight (after all, obesity is a health risk too), and so on. (blogspot.com)
  • Explanations work -to reduce our discomfort. (beyondbetter.io)
  • One way to reconcile the dissonance would be to change your mind about proposition #1. (utexas.edu)
  • while the music is not always strictly diatonic, the dissonance, when it appears, serves to add poignancy rather than discomfort. (expose.org)
  • Their eponymous debut from 2006 was self-produced and sold well at gigs, garnering loads of attention for this pair of busy musicians (this is but one of many projects they are involved with). (expose.org)
  • The research concluded that a well-balanced C-suite on the other hand produces 'harmonious dissonance' - continual and dynamic back-and-forth debate and resolution that leads to effective problem solving. (stepbeyond.eu)
  • These smoking cessation guidelines for Australian general practice have been developed from a review of all of these materials plus guidelines produced for special groups. (who.int)
  • The theory of cognitive dissonance was developed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in the mid-1950s, after observing the counterintuitive persistence of members of a UFO doomsday cult and their increased proselytization after their leader's prophecy failed to materialize. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • According to cognitive dissonance theory , first developed by Leon Festinger in the 1950s, people seek to avoid the internal discomfort that arises when their beliefs, attitudes or behavior come into conflict with each other or with new information. (popsci.com)
  • Research on dissonance reveals that individuals in possession of beliefs that are psychologically inconsistent with one another actually experience physical discomfort, which motivates such people to take action to resolve the inconsistency. (partnersforethicalcare.com)
  • In response to the physical discomfort arising from the beliefs that one can change sex, that it is possible to be born in the wrong body, and that one has, in fact, been born in the wrong body, the "trans" community has added this fifth tool to their repertoire. (partnersforethicalcare.com)
  • Soon, when this sinister medical abuse is revealed for what it truly is, we will see that these treatments do not work, because physical discomfort produced by a false belief cannot be cured by amputation. (partnersforethicalcare.com)
  • For Robinson, working on Iowa was excruciating not because the nine members of Slipknot were angry and often intoxicated to the point of near-collapse, but because he was in tremendous physical discomfort. (kcrr.com)
  • My practice to communicate about chemistry eased some of the discomfort that inevitably arises in dating, and eventually, I felt confident and seasoned in my role of honesty initiator. (elephantjournal.com)
  • The cognitive dissonance arises because they have nothing to offer that matches the severity of the problem. (ehn.org)
  • Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. (stephaniecolson.net)
  • 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. (stephaniecolson.net)
  • Contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, in order to reduce the amount of dissonance ( conflict ) between cognitions and bring them back into a consistent relationship. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Cognitive dissonance-holding contradictory beliefs, values or perceptions-can also contribute discomfort and mental stress. (insidehighered.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance occurs when an individual holds two or more incongruent beliefs in their mind at the same time. (partnersforethicalcare.com)
  • To deal with this kind of discomfort, people sometimes attempt to rationalize their beliefs and behavior. (popsci.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance may also provide an explanation for other science-related conspiracy theories, such as flat Earth beliefs, climate change denial and so on. (popsci.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance can be mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds beliefs, ideas, or values and is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. (debunkingmandelaeffects.com)
  • Festinger interpreted the failed message of earth 's destruction, sent by extraterrestrials to a suburban housewife, as a "disconfirmed expectancy" that increased dissonance between cognitions, thereby causing most members of the impromptu cult to lessen the dissonance by accepting a new prophecy: That the aliens had instead spared the planet for their sake (Festinger et al. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Rather than give up on the original belief, they preferred to lessen the cognitive dissonance they were experiencing internally. (popsci.com)
  • Cognitive dissonance describes an incompatibility in the relationship between two cognitions, based on contradictory information, and the mental toll this takes on the person. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • A boy's belief that he is a girl, and vice versa, is perfectly illustrative of an incongruent belief - one that is inherently contradictory and produces extreme discomfort in the individual in its possession. (partnersforethicalcare.com)
  • According to the American social psychologist Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, disconfirmed expectancies create a state of psychological discomfort because the outcome contradicts expectancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Expectancy -value theory originates from the concept that people's actions are motivated by their belief of what they think that they are capable of achieving, and the belief that their actions will produce the outcome that they expected. (antiessays.com)
  • And yet, they'll be sensitive to any evidence they hear about that contradicts their conviction, which creates a feeling of cognitive discomfort. (popsci.com)
  • Please note the use of "can be" as there is many purists that don't accept the broader definition and scope of cognitive dissonance applying to memory versus reality. (debunkingmandelaeffects.com)
  • The Encyclopedia Britannica expands the definition by stating, 'Humor is the only form of communication in which a stimulus on a high level of complexity produces a stereotyped, predictable response on the physiological reflex level. (redlandsfortnightly.org)
  • My bigger goal in life was radical honesty (not brutal honesty, but matter-of-fact up-frontness), and dating produced an abundance of opportunities to work my honesty muscles. (elephantjournal.com)
  • When you work on climate change, cognitive dissonance is a daily experience. (ehn.org)
  • Thus, the believer is subject to a large amount of cognitive dissonance: "I believe something that is not true. (wikipedia.org)
  • The research concluded that a well-balanced C-suite on the other hand produces 'harmonious dissonance' - continual and dynamic back-and-forth debate and resolution that leads to effective problem solving. (stepbeyond.eu)
  • He bounced back from failure, embraced discomfort, and adjusted his goals until success was the only option. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • We normally escape the discomfort of cognitive dissonance by distracting ourselves (get a coffee, read a newspaper, etc), but with no distractions available, we experience a kind of restless, self-loathing ennui. (erowid.org)
  • This is an instance where looking through the scientific lens has produced a thin narrative out of the richness of being a person. (theframefanzine.com)
  • You don't need to teach in Florida or Texas to recognize that these are extraordinarily fraught topics that provoke defensiveness, denial, discomfort and division, as well as anger or silence. (insidehighered.com)
  • The book masterfully weaves together an array of scenarios and discussions, and directly addresses challenging topics such as discomfort, violence, advocacy, bias, and responsibility. (solutiontree.com)
  • My shows glorify discomfort as the key to transcendence and the creation of more meaning in life," she says. (electronicbeats.net)
  • The West doesn't seem to want to make the kind of changes that might cause a little discomfort, much less pain. (ehn.org)
  • Ross draws from Yiddish and Black Vernacular English, but also from academic jargon, hippie slang, restaurant menus, and mathematical notation to produce a sui generis carnival of diversity. (electricliterature.com)
  • Festinger saw this as a case that would lead to the arousal of dissonance when the prophecy failed. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In this case, if Mrs. Keech could add consonant elements by converting others to the basic premise, then the magnitude of her dissonance following disconfirmation would be reduced. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • This produces a long-tail distribution of popularity (see right-hand curve) which is a strong indication of social influence and copying. (conversion-uplift.co.uk)
  • The name captures the idea that an almost human-looking robot seems overly "strange" to some human beings, produces a feeling of uncanniness , and thus fails to evoke the empathic response required for productive human-robot interaction . (wikipedia.org)
  • The term it fits most with is "confabulation" which is a disturbance of memory which produces fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about the world, without the explicit or conscious intention to deceive others. (debunkingmandelaeffects.com)
  • The job of both the psychologist and the manager was to manipulate the human environment to produce the desired results. (erowid.org)