Interesting articles on Cognitive Dissonance (CD):
- https://examinedexistence.com/cognitive-dissonance-examples-everyday-life/ - nice
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326738
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mating-game/201612/how-cognitive-dissonance-relates-relationships: "people tend to dislike their victims more after they have victimized them. It’s even easier to hate our victims if we de-humanize them. Committing wartime atrocities when you like and value your victims causes immense dissonance."
- https://www.cleverism.com/understanding-cognitive-dissonance-and-why-it-occurs-in-most-people/: "The person actually sees signs that the partner has some negative traits, but since the person is in love, he or she convinces himself that they are temporary, or that the good traits of the partner overweigh these signs. This is the same reason why people stay in abusive relationships. For instance, a lady who gets hit by her lover after being in a relationship for a year experiences cognitive dissonance because she loves her partner but doesn’t love his behavior. To reduce the dissonance, she might overlook getting hurt and look at the positive traits of the partner. In so doing, the lady opts to stay with an abusive partner."
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliot-aronson/todd-akin-cognitive-disso_b_1840432.html
- http://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html - nice article.
- http://theunboundedspirit.com/festingers-cognitive-dissonance-theory-and-research-examples/
- http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=245
- http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=369
- An interesting quote from an article (am not able to provide the link - it has been removed: "Because of this (CD), people who are deeply committed to a position will almost never be persuaded to change their minds, no matter how powerful opposing arguments may be." - an F trait as explained below. A Tamil saying goes "Whether he is just a stone or grass, he is a husband (and hence good)". The ability to cut your losses and leave is more a T(hinking) trait while throwing good money after bad money may be because of this CD.
- Later a friend explained to me that what i thought was an F trait (unwilling to change their mind where necessary) was actually a J trait... I think both F and J can get it, though through different routes.
- Book - Mistakes were made (but not by me) - by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
- Book - The Social Animal by Ellot Aronson
- http://www.intropsych.com/ch15_social/cognitive_dissonance.html
Elliot Aronson calls the behavior arising out of CD as rationalizing as against being rational. I feel this is an F trait ("Feeling" as per MBTI) - to hold on to something where you have already invested a lot, despite the thing being not so good. A previous action conflicting with a person's beliefs results in his denying the action or minimizing the importance of the action or changing his beliefs so that the dissonance is reduced. Action, in this case, causes (change in) belief, which in turn determines further course of action.
The interesting thing in this case is that CD causes a turn in future actions which are caused by change in attitude which were caused by dissonance.
The interesting thing in this case is that CD causes a turn in future actions which are caused by change in attitude which were caused by dissonance.
On Influence / Persuasion
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
- http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/six-principles-influence.htm
Cognitive dissonance says that attitude depends on behavior while Cialdini postulates that that behavior depends on other factors (including attitude). The common thread between the two thoughts seems to be "Commitment and Consistency (CC)". Cognitive dissonance seems to indicate that CC is a result of action and perhaps results in continued action. While the influence / persuasion thought seems to indicate that CC results in continued action.
Is CC a J (as in MBTI) trait?
On Obedience and Milgram's experiments: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
On Obedience and Milgram's experiments: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
On Conformity and Solomon Asch's Experiments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
A nice article on CD: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_is_it_so_hard_to_change_peoples_minds?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=819ecda683-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-819ecda683-51673647
On Henri Tajfel's Prejudice and Social Identity Theory:
A nice article on CD: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_is_it_so_hard_to_change_peoples_minds?utm_source=Greater+Good+Science+Center&utm_campaign=819ecda683-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ae73e326e-819ecda683-51673647
On Henri Tajfel's Prejudice and Social Identity Theory:
- http://www.simplypsychology.org/social-identity-theory.html
- http://identitythoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/social-stereotypes-and-social-groups-henri-tajfel-in-red-book/ - categorization seems like an NT (as in MBTI) function
- https://explorable.com/intergroup-discrimination
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