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What is Cognitive Dissonance
1.
This is considered to be the state of uncomfortableness associated with
cognitive
efforts. Specifically a mental style of stressful discomfort as one’s mental models of understanding and knowledge connections, or knowledge framework, are brought under scrutiny when confronted with contradictory or novel information that must be processed.
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2.
A psychological phenomenon that when a person holds conflicting cognitions, the person will strive to justify the conflict to reduce mental discomfort.
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3.
When exposed to an attitude-incongruent piece of information, individuals are likely to experience internal inconsistency and psychologically and are, in turn, motivated to reduce such
cognitive dissonance
.
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4.
The mental stress or discomfort about the purchased services or products experienced by consumers in the post-purchase process.
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5.
A state of psychological conflict, which results from incongruous values and attitudes held simultaneously, or discrepancy between an individual’s acts and beliefs.
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6.
Cognitive dissonance
represents a motivational and/or arousal response to external stimuli that is perceived as an inner contradiction.
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7.
The state of disequilibrium experienced when human beings have two pieces of information that are connected but inconsistent.
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8.
The study of how we attempt to reconcile conflicting cognitions (for example, a conflict between our attitudes and our behaviour).
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9.
Psychological distress brought on by acknowledging and having to confront conflicting perspectives.
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10.
The experience of having inconsistent thoughts and behavior.
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11.
The unpleasant mental discomfort when an individual is faced with one or more contradictory beliefs, values, ideas, or actions. The individual attempts to realign their internal psychological processes to decrease
dissonance
. This can take the form of resisting actions that are inconsistent with attitudes, or forming attitudes that are consistent with actions.
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12.
The mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas or values.
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13.
Feelings of discomfort when a person’s beliefs run counter to his/her behaviors and/or new information that is presented to him/her.
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