Consonance and dissonance

cognition, emotion and motivation that most interests you. Integrate a discussion of how you see your research findings as significant to your clinical work or the field of psychology in general. Cognitive Dissonance Psychologist Leon Festinger will be remembered for his theory of cognitive dissonance. His theory and research centered on the subjective feeling of tension or discomfort that occurs when a person’s beliefs do not match their behaviors. People search for homeostasis, or…

Contextual bias occurs when the investigators uses irrelevant facts to prove the guilt of a suspect, while confirmation bias occurs when they specifically look for facts that prove a previous assumption. Avoidance of cognitive dissonance occurs when the investigators refuse to accept new information that can disprove their theories. Like the arson study, other investigators conducted studies about how much these forms of bias can influence evidence interpretations. For example,…

Cognitive dissonance can be found daily in any lifestyle. No one is perfect, people from any social or political status can be affected by cognitive dissonance. However, it is important that the law enforcement attempt to prevent cognitive dissonance from affecting decisions made. Especially, when someone involved in law enforcement has knowingly made a wrongful decision and is attempting to justify it not only to themselves but others. Cognitive Dissonance is defined as the state of having…

The definition of insignificance is “small” or “not worth considering.” This enforces the many reasons for the insignificance of the trapper in the oil painting “Trapper in the Wilderness” by Sydney Laurence. Two such reasons are the size and the color of the trapper. The size of the trapper in the painting contributes greatly to the general triviality of the trapper. The tent and trees near the trapper tower over the trapper, thus drawing away from the attention given to him or her. He or she…

One of the most important benefits of AOSD is the separation of concerns. A concern is an interest, which pertains to the system’s development, its operation or any other matters that are critical or otherwise important to one of the stakeholders [2]. The term separation of concerns was originally coined by Dijkstra in [11]: Let me try to explain to you, what to my taste is characteristic for all intelligent thinking. It is, that one is willing to study in depth an aspect of one’s subject…

sometimes say things we do not mean or act in a way we do not approve of. This clash creates cognitive dissonance, which causes discomfort and a need for justification. Since human beings do not like discomfort or cognitive dissonance, we then come up with a different perspective on our words and actions or we might even start filtering the information just to get rid of the cognitive dissonance by justifying our words and actions to ourselves. This happens all the time. Most of us have found…

Employees will experience cognitive dissonance when they have the experience of being incompatible with other employees (Nolan & Nail, 2014). As employees experience cognitive dissonance, this could be a company determinant. Employees with negative attitudes may experience reduced job performance, meager employee engagement, and unscrupulous behavior (Nolan & Nail, 2014). Conversely, it might lead to the company not meeting their organizational commitments. As a financial advisor with…

Cognitive dissonance is a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. This leads to discomfort which leads to the changing of one 's attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors to reduce discomfort and restore balance. For example pre-marital sex. Being raised with Christian values but wanting to have sex even though it 's morally wrong. People tend to seek consistency in their life. So when they come to a problem, such as sex before marriage, they stumble upon an inconsistency…

Cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) is an uncomfortable feeling created by a situation that involves conflicting behaviors or ideas. In the example given in class (Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S., 1956) aliens would come and rescue a group of “Seekers” from a flood on December 21,1954 at midnight. When the aliens did not come, this created cognitive dissonance. They believed that aliens were coming; aliens did not show up. There are five ways to bring back cognitive…

you realize that she’s nice, considerate, really funny, and likes a lot of the same things you do. This has now caused me some discomfort or inconsistency to my precious ideas that I had, better known as Cognitive Dissonance. For this situation, a way that I reduced cognitive dissonance was be to acquiring new information that outweighs the dissonant beliefs. After hanging out with the girl, I was able to freely like her because in my head she wasn’t the nasty, boyfriend stealer but instead my…