7 Signs You Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance

cognitive dissonance  In Theory of Cognitive Disonance, Festinger has written a book we can all easily follow along and indeed find hard to put down The book is not cold and The central thesis of cognitive dissonance theory is that when two beliefs are inconsistent, individuals experience negatively arousing

Cognitive dissonance Cognitive dissonance is a concept in social psychology It is the discomfort felt by a person who holds conflicting ideas, beliefs or In the late 1950s, two psychologists, Leon Festinger and James M Carlsmith, did a cognitive dissonance experiment on what they called forced compliance The

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and The easiest way to spot signs of cognitive dissonance is by observing the way we engage in behaviours to defend or condone the behaviour This