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Cognitive Dissonance: Our Battle With Conflicting Beliefs
Cognitive dissonance is based on the idea that when two ideas are psychologically not consistent with each other, we change them and make them consistent. If the two conflicting ideas are deeply ingrained in our identity, this mental imbalance can become overwhelming and intoxicate our thoughts — and as a result we may believe even the most absurd conspiracy theories. Watch this video about the origins of this idea and its original research from 1954.
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COLLABORATORS
Script: Jonas Koblin
Artist: Pascal Gaggelli
Voice: Matt Abbott
Coloring: Nalin
Editing: Peera Lertsukittipongsa
Head of Partnership Programme: Selina Bador
Fact checking: Ludo Saint Amour di Chanaz
Production: Bianka
Sound Design: Miguel Ojeda
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Read a research paper on why reasoning is more strongly related to implausible than plausible conspiracy beliefs.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34813995/
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Read this overview on why people believe in conspiracy theories.
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SOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Festinger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
http://davenussbaum.com/blog/replicating-dissonance
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33799054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5444193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591587
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:08 The full story
01:38 Cognitive dissonance
02:41 The cult observation
03:17 Festinger's assessment
04:41 What do you think?
05:04 Patron credits
05:13 Ending
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