PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tranquilizer, Erving Goffman, Social Perception
8 Dec 2015
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Dissonance theory (dt) is about the relationship between attitudes and behaviours. We used to use attitudes to predict behaviour. Theory of planned behaviour/reasoned actions: correlations we were, hard to predict in the way, couldn"t predict behaviour from attitudes so used theory of. Dt introduced the idea that we can use behaviour to predict (or. What to do: quit cult and feel like an idiot, stay with cult and find a way to feel good about it. Which did they choose: message from god, publicity seeking, more devotion aliens, and then return to re-populate earth. Cognitions: i am smart and a reasonable person, i joined a cult, i joined this cult in order to escape from a great flood, be saved by, the flood never happened, the aliens never came. *dissonance is mainly discomfort, cognitive dissonance is the alleviation of that discomfort* Dissonance arises as a result of psychological inconsistency.
