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The Video 'Cognitive Dissonance'

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The video “Cognitive Dissonance” discusses the concept of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is stated to be the result of two cognitions, thoughts or beliefs, competing with each other. When faced with this dissonance, a person will tend to change his beliefs and attitudes to match his behavior. Actually, a person is more likely to change his beliefs if he cannot justify his behavior. As an illustration, a 1959 psychology experiment is recounted. During the experiment, one group is paid one dollar to lie, and another group is paid twenty dollars to lie. Because the twenty dollar group could justify lying for twenty dollars, they admitted that their lie was indeed a lie. By contrast, the one dollar group, since they could not justify
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