PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: European Canadian, Cognitive Dissonance, The American President

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Cognitive dissonance: if we"re not consistent, we feel uncomfortable. If you lie to the next participant the experiment was interesting even though it was boring, and you"re given a bit of money. Dissonance kicks in and you actually think the experiment was more interesting. They only had to pick between 2 things. In one condition, they"re choosing for themselves: the other condition, gets to the idea of importance of others. If you have an independent view of yourself you"d feel very uncomfortable to choose something for someone else: they then, rate how much they like these 2 options. The american president who"s quite a narcissist: self enhancing proposed to be mentally healthy way of viewing the world. Self enhancement: when self evaluations are more + than peer evaluations: self criticism: when self evaluations are more - than peer evaluations, american data: about 2/3ds engage in self enhancements and the rest are self.

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