PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Dissonance, When Prophecy Fails, Gold Bar
22 Mar 2013
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Cognitive dissonance is aroused whenever someone holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent. I smoke vs. smoke is going to kill me. You need to resolve the dissonance either smoking is not bad after all or i"ll quit smoking . Early exploration into dissonance: when prophecy fails. A woman said that she talked to aliens and the aliens will destroy the world, but they wanted to save a few people who were their followers. The people who joined this cult, sold everything they have and prepared for the end of the world. Great example of cognitive dissonance you sell everything you own and preparing for the end of the world. How to resolve: either they have wrong data or aliens were so impress to the devotion of these people so they did what the aliens told them. Because of these, the aliens saved the world. : brehm, 1956- free choice paradigm.
