Psychology 3723F/G Lecture Notes - Chocolate Cake, Leon Festinger, Walkathon
26 Apr 2013
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A theory of how we rationalize our own behaviour. Addresses the relations between pairs of different cognitions in an individual"s mind. But festinger was especially interested in causes where one cognition refers to our own behaviour and the other concerns the value of that behaviour. X is irractional, bad, useless, wrong, etc . Feels good we like consonant cogntitions: it is raining today; i brought my umbrella, i eat broccoli; broccoli is nutritious, i support msf; msf helps those who need help the most. Feels bad we dislike dissonance: family life is more important than work; i am a workaholic, i am an honest person; i lied today, i went to remake of total recall; remake of total recall sucked. Dissonance creates unpleasant feelings: tension, aversive arousal, embarrassment. How bro: change one of the dissonant cogntitions. My important political essay is due in 2 weeks. I ate three pieces of chocolate cake.
