Ballast (above) seems to be a very nice fellow and I would never attack him personally but I am going to go after his ideas.
Everyone is using the term “cognitive dissonance” but few seem to know what it means. It’s not unknowingly holding contradictory opinions: that’s Freudian Compartmentalization. It’s not saying one thing and doing another; that’s simple hypocrisy.
Specifically, cognitive dissonance is when someone becomes aware that his behaviour doesn’t match his attitude, what Festinger and Carlsmith refer to as “attitude discrepant behaviour,” leading to discomfort. What they found is somewhat counter intuitive in that in most cases, the attitude changes to match the behaviour. It’s a theory of how attitudes are formed and changed.
Prime example would be Kansas where everyone is opposed to abortion but voted to keep it. Most don’t see the conflict but if they do, dissonance kicks in and they will become more accepting of abortion.
Ballast (above) seems to be a very nice fellow and I would never attack him personally but I am going to go after his ideas.
Everyone is using the term “cognitive dissonance” but few seem to know what it means. It’s not unknowingly holding contradictory opinions: that’s Freudian Compartmentalization. It’s not saying one thing and doing another; that’s simple hypocrisy.
Specifically, cognitive dissonance is when someone becomes aware that his behaviour doesn’t match his attitude, what Festinger and Carlsmith refer to as “attitude discrepant behaviour,” leading to discomfort. What they found is somewhat counter intuitive in that in most cases, the attitude changes to match the behaviour. It’s a theory of how attitudes are formed and changed.
Prime example would be Kansas where everyone is opposed to abortion but voted to keep it. Most don’t see the conflict but if they do, dissonance kicks in and they will become more accepting of abortion.