PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Cognitive Dissonance

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

Document Summary

Original title: teachers" expectancies: cognitive consequences of forced compliance. Original place of publication: journal of abnormal and social psychology, 58, 203-210: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Are changes in attitudes and opinions greatest when dissonance is large: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) Those participants who were paid for lying about the tasks were later reported liking the tasks more, compared to both those paid to lie and those who did not lie. Another study used the theory of cognitive dissonance to explain why some cigarette smokers refuse to quit even though they know the negative health effects to smoking. Another piece of research based on cognitive dissonance focused on changing students" risky sexual behaviors: implications of work (list the 2 5 most important implications of all of this research)