CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Changing your future actions could resolve the dissonance and make you feel better about the situation. Change how you perceive your actions. By altering the way you regard your actions, you can talk yourself into believing that your actions aren’t in so much opposition to your beliefs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dissonance can be reduced by changing existing beliefs, adding new beliefs, or minimizing the importance of the beliefs. Take, for instance, an example proposed by Festinger: A heavy smoker who knows smoking is bad for his health will experience dissonance because he continues to puff away.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive dissonance theory postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual’s behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs. This underlying tension then motivates an individual to make an attitude change that would produce consistency between thoughts and behaviors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive dissonance is the process by which people detect an inconsistency between cognitions, such as attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. When individuals become aware of an inconsistency between cognitions, they experience a state of psychological discomfort that motivates them to restore consistency.

Detailed explanation-5: -A well-known effect of inducing dissonance this way is that people tend to change their attitude as a way of reducing dissonance. That is, they become more positively tuned to something toward which they previously held a negative attitude (Festinger and Carlsmith, 1959).