Cognitive Dissonance
I love reading aobut psychological experiements, and this one about Cognitive Dissonance is very interesting. Cognitive Dissonance, which I had heard of the term before but never understood, is when you try to reconcile two contradicting thoughts by lieing to yourself.
We all do this, but just to varying degrees for different situations. Sometimes you will rationalise to yourself that it's ok to do something since everyone else is doing despite clearly knowing that it's wrong. You may also convince yourself something is a great buy despite clearly knowing it's not because you don't want to look like a fool to your friends. The list goes in.
This particular experiment is interesting because it was performed on psychology students who thought they were just doing something as part of the course.
posted by thanh7580 @ 11:31 PM
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Another short and relatively pointless entry Mr. Do
Come on!! Step up your game. Dr. Lithgow yawning here!!
Anonymous, unfortunately not all of us find spruiking pills the only interesting thing. Some of us like to read about interesting experiments in social behaviour.
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