COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY Outline: I. Dissonance: discord between behavior and belief. A. Identified by Leon Festinger, cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state that people feel when they find themselves doing things that don’t fit with what they know, or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold. ................
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