Attitudes, Behavior, & Cognitive Dissonance (Intro Psych Tutorial

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In this video I discuss the relationship between attitudes and behavior, including Richard LaPiere's early work on discriminatory practices and Festinger and Carlsmith's classic study on cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance refers to the discomfort caused by conflicting attitudes or behaviors, and Festinger and Carlsmith proposed that people will attempt to reduce this dissonance by either changing their attitudes, or less frequently, changing their behavior. I end by describing the Ben Franklin effect, a technique employed by Franklin to use cognitive dissonance to his advantage in his social relationships.
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[@challengesasaginger]

Hello, I am from Norway and my social psychology exam is tomorrow! These videos is a great way to recap the curriculum and the explanations are so lovely. Thank you for the great content :)

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You're welcome, best of luck on your exam!

[@KathaKriti.9]

Hey !! I am from India. I just want to thank you for all of your videos. It has really helped me in building a strong concept for the topics in Psychology. Keep making such videos :-)

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[@vivaines]

thank you for the explanation!

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[@seisopheapanya7528]

I got improved what is cognitive dissonance now,,,, thanks for this helpful explanation,,,,

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[@manusingh1000]

Good video but I think you got the $1 and $20 lying and not lying wrong in the first section

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Both the $1 and the $20 groups had already told a confederate that the task was fun (presumably a lie for all of them because a control group had rated the task as boring). The difference came in the survey that followed, which participants believed was not part of the study. In this survey the $20 group rated the task as more boring than the $1 did. This is somewhat counterintuitive and the setup is a bit complicated so I hope this helps to clarify.