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Cognitive Dissonance
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| The distressing mental state caused by inconsistency between a person’s two beliefs or a belief and an action. |
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| The tendency people have to avoid information that would create cognitive dissonance because it’s incompatible with their current beliefs. |
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| Strong doubts experienced after making an important close-call decision that is difficult to reverse. |
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| Minimal Justification hypothesis |
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| A claim that the best way to stimulate an attitude change in others is to offer just enough incentive to elicit counter attitudinal behavior. |
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| Public conformity to another's expectation without necessarily having a private conviction that matches the behavior. |
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| Counterattitudinal advocacy |
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| Publicly urging others to believe or do something that is opposed to what the advocate actually believes. |
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| A hypothetical,reliable gauge of the dissonance a person feels as a result of inconsistency |
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| The claim that we determine our attitudes the same way that outside observers do- by observing our behaviors; an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory. |
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