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6.3 Discussion Question Six

6.3 Discussion Question Six

Q Objective Discuss the conditions that elicit dissonance and what strategies we use to reduce dissonance. Instructions: 1. First, review unit six reading assignment, lesson and the clip of Bill Nye's "Cognitive Dissonance." 2. Finally, please respond to the following prompt: How would a dissonance theorist explain the paradoxical finding that we are apt to like our adversaries after doing them a favor, and to dislike our friends after treating them badly? Provide a concrete example. For additional assignment information for Discussion Questions, please refer to the Forum Participation Canvas page. Additionally, you may review the PDF Discussion Question Five Point Rubric download ________________________________________ Questions? Please feel free to post your question to our forum, and a classmate or I will respond with an explanation. Here is the direct link to Student Questions

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Cognitive Dissonance refers to the condition when a person sees or feel that his/her actions is not aligning with the belief he has or wish to have. This can occur to any person. This mainly happens when a person carries two contradictory beliefs at the same time. In the present context, it has been conveyed that after a favor, we are inclined to like our adversaries, or we tend to dislike our friends after treating them badly. It has widely been noticed that often when our actions and beliefs do not match, we tend to feel a discomfort, and this feeling of discomfort is identified as “cognitive dissonance.” However, in terms of “cognitive dissonance,” it has also been noticed that often several actions or act often brings changes or modulations in these thinking.