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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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

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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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