Cognitive Dissonance In College

Decisions are the basis of human history, advancement, and modern society. Important decisions often cause a conflict within a person as he or she attempts to make a choice based on what he or she believes is right, as well as what he or she believes is wise. Throughout life and society, people find themselves at a crossroads of beliefs or thoughts with the justification of murder. This is due to the dissonance illustrated when they have mixed feelings with the idea that killing another human is wrong, although it seemingly appears unavoidable in certain situations. This inevitability is what justifies murder in the first place. These mixed feelings create a cognitive dissonance that impacts society in a detrimental

This chapter focuses on the scientists Leon Festinger and his theory of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when an individual adjusts their beliefs to fit with another person’s actions. Festinger performed multiple experiments to demonstrate cognitive dissonance. One of his experiments involved a group of people who believed that the world was going to end due to a huge flood on December 21st. 1954. Festinger infiltrated this group and pretended to be a believer of the theory. This cult group was based on the end-of world messages from a god named Sananda, who sent messages to the group leader Marion Keech. When the flood did not occur, instead of accepting that their beliefs were wrong, many of the cult members tried to rationalize

Cognitive dissonance theory has been around since the late fifties. It has inspired many psychologists to figure out the murky depths of people’s minds. The theory relates strongly to decision making, social phenomenons and mental angst. Many paradigms exist within cognitive dissonance. Two important paradigms are the Belief Disconfirmation paradigm and the Free Choice paradigm. There are several experiments that have been studied that relate to cognitive dissonance, including the boring tasks experiment. The person who coined the phrase cognitive dissonance is the famous Leon Festinger, and he studied it inside and out. Cognitive dissonance is one of the most important topics

“We, the First Presidency…of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God…” This is the opening line in The Family: A Proclamation to the World, given by former President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), Gordon B. Hinckley, in September of 1995. This is one of the main doctrines in the LDS faith. In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the legalization of gay marriage in 2015, these two ideologies, what is socially acceptable versus the standards of the LDS faith, stand contrary to one another. This contradiction causes what is known as cognitive dissonance. Many people have noted that members of the LDS faith have felt this dissonance from society, but what about those people of the LDS faith who identify as LGBT or experience same sex attraction on some level? The more we identify the two things that oppose each other, the greater the cognitive dissonance.

Besides this omission by Kalat, he still provided an accurate and detailed account of the research article written by Ariely and Wertenbroch. This article is essential in understanding procrastination and answered throughly the three questions it posed. 1.) Are people willing to impose deadlines, with substantial consequences if they are not met, on themselves: yes. 2.) Are these self-imposed deadlines actually helpful in improving overall performance:

Attention Getter: A famous author by the name of Wayne Dyer once said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is incredibly heavy.”(1) In todays society it seems as if procrastination has become a normal and acceptable thing to do. It is often joked about amongst schoolmates and co-workers around the world. Nothing seems to get done until it absolutely needs to get done, then everyone runs around getting things done quickly and often times inaccurately. The trouble with this mentality however is that some things will never get done because something will come up tomorrow or the next day and what you are putting off now gets pushed even further back. Today I will persuade you to stop this habit from continuing. I will be explaining the problems we face when dealing with procrastination as well as how to deal with it and actions you can take to prevent it in the future.

I decided to write about some instances of potential cognitive dissonance concerning inconsistent events. There are many hints surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack that there was a person in authority that had prior knowledge of Japan's plans of attacking the base. Despite knowing that these plans had the potential to be carried out, they made the decision to stand idle on the matter. As a result, they lost 2,403 people that day. Most people are given the same generic information in textbook form. In many cases, people take those same lies for truth. Through the very different change in information people often enter a state of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is partially the media's fault in many cases. Observing the same case from

Cognitive dissonance impacts attitudes and behavior negatively in the workplace in a variety of ways depending on the position you are employed. Being in management as an administrator you are faced with many challenges and situations that cause cognitive dissonance. For example, if my director asks me to perform a task and the way in which he wants me to perform the task, goes against my beliefs, I am forced to decide whether to follow his directives or risk termination for insubordination. The stress factor is making the correct decision. I can remember an instructor sending a student to me for conduct issues and wanted the student terminated from her program. The documentation that she provided to me was not sufficient to suspend the student,

While they say college is supposed to be the time where you find yourself, and become who you really are, I find that I have still not reached that point. That’s not to say that I haven’t done all of the other important things that you’re supposed to do while you’re in college; I’ve picked a major, a minor, figured out all the best routes to class are, found a flexible job to help pay my rent, and found friends that I can for the most part rely on. The department I have lacked in the most would be finding love. But like all things, there is trial and error. For me it has been mostly error, but in hindsight I can see why.

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE- After our class end I was suppose to write my journal submit it before noon. That did not happen, what happened instead was that I convinced myself that I needed a break and need to catch up Game of Thrones. After the first episode ended, I immediately started watching the next episode and I justified it by saying that I am getting it out of the way and so that when I do end up doing my homework, I would be doing it without any distractions. One episode led to two episodes, few more hours later I ended up watch a whole season of Game of Thrones. What makes this an example of cognitive dissonance, is because cognitive dissonance is often

It is important to individuals to be able to control cognitive dissonance since it creates confusions between one or more cognition within their personality and ways of making attributions. When individuals’ cognitive ability are affected with conflicting behaviors and beliefs, they become confused and sometimes handicap to produce the right attributions to others. Most of the times, individuals are optimists to what they believe is right without thinking about the negative side of their beliefs. “Mostly, individuals consider themselves to be generally self-aware at any given time” (GCU, 2012). Hence, cognitive dissonance manipulates the self-attributive determination, and drives the person to inability to make the right decisions, attributions,

One of the first dissonance theories that can be used to solve issues with your project is to reduce the importance of the conflicting belief.

Procrastination is a common tendency that we all give in to and all of us have at least a little experience with.

“I’ll stop procrastinating…Tomorrow.” This is a mindset that is possessed by a majority of students today. Although putting off writing that English paper until the night before it is due may not seem like a big deal, it has many harmful effects. In fact, what better topic is there for that English paper? Very few are spared from the epidemic known as procrastination. Even less overcome this issue. In order to successfully defeat procrastination, we must first understand it.

“Procrastination is a common form of self-regulatory failure with substantive connections” where the tendency is to put off tasks. (Steel, Farrari, 2013)