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6.6 Cognitive Dissonance Flashcards

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What is cognitive dissonance?

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An unpleasant psychological state that occurs when people become aware that there is inconsistency among their various beliefs, attitudes or other ‘cognitions’, or that their behaviour conflicts with their cognitions

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How can we change our dissonant cognition?

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-Reducing the importance of what happened
-Changing our behaviour to suit the dissonant cognition
-Add new cognitions or supportive elements to outweight the dissonant cognition or to rationalist or justify the behaviour

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