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As the pioneering social psychologist Leon Festinger argued, when confronted with overwhelming evidence contradicting deeply held beliefs, people do not necessarily change their views; instead ...

These were the sort of questions being asked back in the pre internet 1950s by social scientists Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, who infiltrated one such group of believers ...

In Cognitive Dissonance Theory (1957), Leon Festinger proposes that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency. He relates an experiment wherein a child has to choose between two ...

After proposing the concept of cognitive dissonance, psychologist Leon Festinger created an experiment to test his theory that was also known as the boring experiment.. Participants were paid either ...

Have you ever felt guilty because your actions don’t align with what you believe in? That’s cognitive dissonance. Learn how to spot it and make it go away.

A s the psychologist Leon Festinger wrote in 1956, “A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources.

In the 1950s, psychologist Leon Festinger introduced the concept of “cognitive dissonance” to the field of social psychology. It refers to the discomfort of holding “two conflicting thoughts ...