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As presented by Festinger in 1957, dissonance theory began by postulating that pairs of cognitions (elements of knowledge) can be relevant or irrelevant to one another.
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- Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- How Attitude Change Takes Place
- What Causes Cognitive Dissonance?
- Forced Compliance Behavior
- Decision Making
- Effort
- Critical Evaluation
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult that believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happe...
Festinger’s (1957) cognitive dissonance theory suggests that we have an inner drive to hold all our attitudes and behavior in harmony and avoid disharmony (or dissonance). This is known as the principle of cognitive consistency. Notice that dissonance theory does not state that these modes of dissonance reduction will actually work, only that indiv...
Forced Compliance Behavior,Decision Making,Effort.When someone is forced to do (publicly) something they (privately) really don’t want to do, dissonance is created between their cognition (I didn’t want to do this) and their behavior (I did it). Forced compliance occurs when an individual performs an action that is inconsistent with his or her beliefs. The behavior can’t be changed since it was al...
Life is filled with decisions, and decisions (as a general rule) arouse dissonance. For example, suppose you had to decide whether to accept a job in an absolutely beautiful area of the country or turn down the job so you could be near your friends and family. Either way, you would experience dissonance. If you took the job you would miss your love...
It also seems to be the case that we value most highly those goals or items which have required considerable effort to achieve. This is probably because dissonance would be caused if we spent a great effort to achieve something and then evaluated it negatively. We could, of course, spend years of effort into achieving something which turns out to b...
It is a theory with very broad applications, showing that we aim for consistency between attitudes and behaviors and may not use very rational methods to achieve it. It has the advantage of being testable by scientific means (i.e., experiments). However, there is a problem from a scientific point of view because we cannot physically observe cogniti...
Apr 2, 2012 · A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundamental function of music has been to help mitigating cognitive dissonances. A cognitive dissonance is "a discomfort caused by holding...
- Nobuo Masataka, Leonid Perlovsky
- 2012
Sep 25, 2012 · A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundamental function of music has been to help mitigating cognitive dissonance, which is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions...
- Nobuo Masataka, Leonid Perlovsky, Leonid Perlovsky
- 2012
If you have been in a situation when your thoughts, ideas, and values didn’t match one another or your behavior, you might have experienced a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. In this article, we’ll define what cognitive dissonance is and explain its underlying theory.
Dec 1, 2022 · The study indicates that music expertise facilitates only behavioral performance, which spans a much longer temporal frame than MMN responses and involves higher-order cognitive abilities, while fundamental, low-level automatic sensory reactions are not differentiated based on musical expertise.
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cognitive function of music? Would such an effect of music be due to the hedonicity, a fundamental dimension of mental experience? The present paper explores a recent hypothesis that music helps to tolerate cognitive dissonances and thus enabled accumulation of knowledge and human cultural evolution (Perlovsky, 2010, 2012).
