An introduction to cognitive dissonance theory and an overview of

cognitive dissonance  Post-decisional dissonance occurs after making a decision that is irrevocable, or that would be very difficult to reverse This type of cognitive dissonance The cognitive dissonance experiment by Leon Festinger assumes that people hold many different cognitions about their world and tests what happens when the

Cognitive dissonance is the anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, Sometimes when patients engage in a new, more constructive behavior, they can perceive dissonance simply because it is contrary to the way they

What is cognitive dissonance? What you've just experienced is the power of cognitive dissonance Social psychologists studying cognitive cognitive dissonance would have been created The things they saw around them — the destruction , the wounded and killed — produced cognition which was