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  • How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance | PsyBlog

    From the page: "Cognitive dissonance What you've just experienced is the power of cognitive dissonance. Social psychologists studying cognitive dissonance are interested in the way we deal with two thoughts that contradict each other - and how we deal with this contradiction. In... more

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  • Rated by stojkak on May 06 2009, 9:26pm

    Thanks, Lysa!

  • Rated by donniedarko on Apr 12 2009, 2:29am

    Interesting article on cognitive dissonance.

  • Rated by PatFlynn on Jan 04 2009, 9:10am

    The dark world of our inner motivations.

  • Rated by donwallacedcruz on Sep 06 2008, 5:54am

    Cognitive Dissonance. A must-read.

  • Rated by GHADELLO on Jun 03 2008, 2:10pm

    This could be difficult to grasp as the example already starts with an involvement of a lie none the less 'Cognitive Dissonance' happens almost all the time and maybe a different way of interpretation could be "by being aware one could influence the other to react in an unaware state of mind" which than continues exponentially and therefore the truth could be declared more present within lots of other spices than humans! Ghadello

  • Rated by adarsh-seeker on Jun 03 2008, 3:22am

    Brilliant!!!

  • Rated by statoun on May 28 2008, 8:23am

    From the page: "Cognitive dissonance What you've just experienced is the power of cognitive dissonance. Social psychologists studying cognitive dissonance are interested in the way we deal with two thoughts that contradict each other - and how we deal with this contradiction. In this case: you thought the task was boring to start off with then you were paid to tell someone else the task was interesting. But, you're not the kind of person to casually go around lying to people. So how can you resolve your view of yourself as an honest person with lying to the next participant? The amount of money you were paid hardly salves your conscience - it was nice but not that nice. Your mind resolves this conundrum by deciding that actually the study was pretty interesting after all. You are helped to this conclusion by the experimenter who tells you other people also thought the study was pretty interesting. Your friend, meanwhile, has no need of these mental machinations. She merely thinks to herself: I've been paid $20 to lie, that's a small fortune for a student like me, and more than justifies my fibbing. The task was boring and still is boring whatever the experimenter tells me. "

  • Rated by Linzys on May 21 2008, 9:19pm

    Really cool!

  • Rated by erinidle on Mar 03 2008, 10:39pm

    Hooray for Comm Theory!