social psychology stemming from Festinger ’s (1957) theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Effort justification theory states that people have tendency to attribute a greater value to an outcome they had to put effort into obtaining. Cognitive Dissonance theory attempts to explain people ’s change of attitudes or beliefs when they face a dissonance between contradicting cognitions. Effort Justification theory is only a subtype of dissonance theory in action where an amount of effort put into obtaining
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understanding of life. The theories that I have captured my interest would be Cognitive Dissonance Theory and the Uncertainty Reduction Theory. I like the fact that both of them are something‚ which I could be able to relate too quite easily. Both theories have different features to be used as part of our daily lives but both equivalently important. Leon Festinger developed the theory of Cognitive Dissonance in the 1950s. This theory states that when we receive something that disagrees with
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objective. In fact‚ there is a bunch of things we know we should take clear of but we do them anyway and vice versa. This is a reason why people are more attracted to products during the sales. In this case‚ irrational behavior leads people to cognitive dissonance because at some level‚ everybody has some reasons to do the “wrong” action. People are more attracted to products when it comes to the sales or when they can receive discounts. This phenomenon leads us to a situation in which a major part
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essential and necessary aspects of making any decision. "The need to reduce dissonance is a universal mental mechanism‚ but that doesn’t mean we are doomed to be controlled by it. Human beings may not be eager to change‚ but we have the ability to change‚ and the fact that many of our self-protective delusions and blind spots are built into the way the brain works is no justification for not trying... An appreciation of how dissonance works‚ in ourselves and others‚ gives us some ways to override our wiring
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or distorted because the sender is not able to properly communicate their message because of poor communication skills. Second‚ external distractions interfere with the message or detract the source. The well-known game of Telephone is a great example of this. One person starts a message and by the time is reaches the last person the message is usually completely different than how it started. Language‚ gestures‚
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dissatisfaction results when performance is below expectations. Another possible outcome of purchase is cognitive dissonance which refers to a feeling of psychological tension or post-purchase doubt a consumer may experience after making a difficult purchase choice. Consumers often look to advertising for supportive information regarding the choice they have made. 2. What is cognitive dissonance? anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes
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superordinate‚ representational‚ and combinatorial processes that occur during the reception of information. A primary process in learning is subsumption in which new material is related to relevant ideas in the existing cognitive structure on a substantive‚ non-verbatim basis. Cognitive structures represent the residue of all learning experiences; forgetting occurs because certain details get integrated and lose their individual identity. A major instructional mechanism proposed by Ausubel is the use
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1. Cognitive dissonance is a state where someone is being confronted by something that is against his beliefs (doing an action that he / she does not like‚ etc.)‚ and then he / she tries to balance the inconsistency that he experienced by changing his view on that inconsistency (to reduce the dissonance by justifying it). People want to be consistent in their attitudes and rationalizing irrational things that they did is what cognitive dissonance makes them do. For example‚ in Festinger’s experiments
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involves the feelings and emotions about the attitude object. Behavioural which is how the attitude influences how we act or behave and Cognitive this involves the person’s belief and attitudes around the attitude object. There has been much research into attitudes‚ in an attempt to discover how people form attitudes and how they in turn impact upon behaviour. The cognitive approach focuses the internal mental processes used. It uses an analogy of the mind as a computer to
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Cognitive dissonance Cognitive dissonance is the term used in modern psychology to describe the state of people when holding two or more conflicting cognitions (e.g.‚ ideas‚ beliefs‚ values‚ emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance‚ people may sometimes feel surprise‚ dread‚ guilt‚ anger‚ or embarrassment.[1] The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions‚ adding new
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