SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Introspection Illusion, Cognitive Dissonance, Steven Pinker
25 Dec 2018
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If you knew you were adjusting your factual beliefs about how enjoyable the tasta were to think of yourself as a better person, it would not work: changing beliefs about something that is not that important. It does not just happen to be true if you do not know you are doing this: belief change mediated by cognitive dissonance is: Effective over a wide range of situations and issues, including deeply held personal beliefs on politically and socially consequential topics. In order to see why, we will briefly consider our awareness of our own deliberations. Inventing a story or narrative explaining the behavior they just performed: confabulation - memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misrepresented memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive. After the choice, two of the most important were switched (low price, short battery now high price, long battery).
