Cognitive Dissonance: Busting makes you feel good

Got cognitive dissonance? Learn helpful tips for either lying to yourself about it or growing as a person.

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Bonus: Watch Roi Ben-Yehuda's video on how to shake up your identity and "offend yourself"

Further Reading:

• The Effect of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group by Aronson & Mills (1959)
• When Prophecy Fails by Fesinger, Riecken & Schachter (1956)
• Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Festinger & Carlsmith (1959)
• Effect of the severity of threat on the devaluation of forbidden behavior by Aronson & Carlsmith (1963)
• Adaptive Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals by Wrosch et. al. (2003)
• A challenge to human evolution—cognitive dissonance by Perlovsky (2013)
• Respectable Challenges to Respectable Theory by Vaidis & Bran (2019) 
• What Is Cognitive Consistency, and Why Does It Matter? by Gawronski & Brannon (2019)
• Consistency-based compliance across cultures by Petrova, Cialdini, and Sills (2007)
• Preference for consistency: The development of a valid measure and the discovery of surprising behavioral implications by Cialdini, Trost, & Newsom (1995)
• The Consistency Principle in Interpersonal Communication by Mojzisch et. al. (2014)
• Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs by Taber & Lodge (2006)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings