Sunday, July 2, 2017

Social Psychology

Interesting articles on Cognitive Dissonance (CD):
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. 


On Influence / Persuasion
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 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: 

On prejudice, hostile sexism and benevolent sexism: http://www.understandingprejudice.org/links/


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