The degree of punishment, in itself, was insufficiently strong to resolve their cognitive dissonance. Almost half a century ago social psychologist leon festinger developed the cognitive dissonance theory festinger. Pdf conflicto o disonancia cognitiva wilson miranda. You can download a version suitable for your system, free of charge, from adobe. Festinger s 1957 original theory of cognitive dissonance concerned situations in which individuals have two cognitions that are relevant to each other but inconsistent with each other. Making acrobat pdf files accessible uh hilo university of hawaii. Consider if your document needs to be a pdf before it is posted online. Notice that dissonance theory does not state that these modes of dissonance reduction will actually work, only that individuals who are in a state of cognitive dissonance will take steps to reduce the extent of their dissonance.
For the theory, cognitions were any bits of knowledge an individual may have. Leon festinger may 8, 1919february 11, 1989 by stanley schachter one of the last times leon festinger saw his father was in a nursing home in brooklyn. Adobe also provides tools and information to help make. Easily combine multiple files into one pdf document. Adobe pdf files to read and print a pdf file, you must have adobe. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Festinger s 1957 book elaborated these hypotheses and many subsidiary ones, and a lesserknown volume reporting experimental investigations of them appeared some years later festinger, ed. The central proposition of festinger s theory is that if a person holds two cognitions that are inconsistent with one another, he will experience the pressure of an aversive motivational state called cognitive dissonance, a pressure which he will seek to remove, among other ways. How to merge pdfs and combine pdf files adobe acrobat dc. Most documents on our website are posted in one or more of three formats. It is not surprising that attempts have been made to frame economic behaviour in terms of strategies aimed at reducing cognitive dissonance. Conflicto o disonancia cognitiva linkedin slideshare. A cognitive dissonance approach avidit acharya, stanford university matthew blackwell, harvard university maya sen, harvard university the standard approach in positive political theory posits that action choices are the consequences of preferences.
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