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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - because, cognitive dissonance produces discomfort
      - with 3 ways
        
        changing your cognitions
        
        change belief because so that you can change why you do something that opposite of you r belief
        
        change our self-concept - a bit difficult
        
        attempt to justify our behavior
        
        change the perceive in your belief
        
        add consonant cognition
        
        changing their behavior
        
        so that its align with their belief
        
        change action
      - process reducing resonance
        
        largely unconscious happen bellow our awareness
    - - self affirmations
        
        to reduce dissonance by reminding positive attributions.
      - impact bias
        
        human tendencies for overestimate the feeling
        
        but actually, our emotion for discomfort isn't long lasting, but temporary because our body already has its mechanism to prevent it. (overthinking)
        
        tendencies
        
        to overestimate the intensity and duration of our emotional reaction
        
        impact: waiting for job acceptance
        
        if didn't get - we sad ( we tend to think that the reaction on this event will last long )
        
        negative event - doesnt last long
    - - low self-esteem
        
        their belief more them. not expected more
        
        they felt they are already loser, so doing wrong this is just okay with them by doing the opposite of their belief (consonant)
      - high self-esteem
        
        more to motivated to reduce dissonance
        
        expected more from themselves (dissonance)
      - is most painful, and people are most motivated to reduce it./
  - - - either the pricey one, but with great advantages comes with it
      - or affordable one, but with lesser advantages comes with it.
    - - aroused after making a decision
      - to help yourself accept the dicision
  - - - etc: Japan
        
        rarely justify any problem, they always maintain group harmony.
    - - Individuals
        
        happen eventually
      - the context at the cognitions that produces it may differ across cultures
    - - what part of the brain
        
        Striatum
        
        prefrontal context
        
        occur when involved to make dicisions
      - brain shutdown
        
        when discomforted happen
        
        but it light up again when the discomfort being reduced.
- - - - To increase their liking for something they work hard to obtain it.
      - stronger attachment once this justification is made
    - - starting on opinion or attitude that contradict to one's private belief / attribute
      - the smaller the external incentive, the greater the attitude change
      - internal justification
        
        the reduction at dissonance, by changing something about oneself
        
        happen when external turn minimal
      - external justification
        
        process to find a reason explanation
        
        for dissonant personal
      - eg: cigarette
        
        how when the government want to preventing smoking, they put external justification, by putting a dangerous outcome if smoking on the packaging.
        
        they should put internal justification so that they can achieve the longer result.
      - insufficient punishment
        
        leads to self-persuasion