Zi: 22 martie 2021

However, after further thought, we may decide that it does not matter what others think of us and can thus reduce the dissonance. The next step is to identify the cause of inconsistencies in our thoughts. Understanding your beliefs and values behind the inconsistencies is an opportunity to develop Sober House deeper self-knowledge. Cognitive dissonance […]

However, new information such as “research has not proved definitely that smoking causes lung cancer” may reduce the dissonance. For example, thinking smoking causes lung cancer will cause dissonance if a person smokes. This is probably because dissonance would be caused if we spent a great effort to achieve something and then evaluated it negatively. […]