Cognitive Dissonance

cognitive dissonance  Cognitive dissonance, the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information  Cognitive dissonance definition: anxiety or discomfort that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs,

Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress people feel when they hold two contradictory ideas in their mind at the same time When the In Theory of Cognitive Disonance, Festinger has written a book we can all easily follow along and indeed find hard to put down The book is not cold and

Cognitive dissonance Cognitive dissonance is a theory from social psychology Originally coined by Leon Festinger in 1957, it describes a phenomenon whereby In the late 1950s, two psychologists, Leon Festinger and James M Carlsmith, did a cognitive dissonance experiment on what they called forced compliance The