An example of "Cognative Dissonance"
 

I was roaming the halls of my work/internship this afternoon, when a young lady stopped me for a bit for a quick chat up/flirt session. She asked me how everything was going, especially with school, I told her that I am graduating May 15. She asked me what my plans were after I completed school. I mentioned that more than likely that I will probably start a band! Here I am, from her perspective that was written all over her face, Mr. IT God, Nerd-On-High that i am, putting all of my efforts into getting a degree, to contemplate, what, PLAYING MUSIC?!?! "Surely, being in Montana, you are going to play Country music, right?" I then replied, "No, thats not my thing." Needless to say, the convo kinda died not to long after that. I love taking ppls expectations and scrambling them.

No real point to this thread, just thought I'd share.

I never liked her anyway.
Rock on!


: )


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"Told ya the bitch was crazy!"

-Chris Rock

LOL That was FUNNY!!!!

"yeah.....uh huh......right......really......you don't say......yup.....I told you that bitch was crazy!!!" - Chris Rock

I just had to build off of that some fhqwhgads.

I was introduced into "Cognitive Dissonance" yesterday in my Intro to Soc class... and i'm not seeing the connection. Maybe someone could help me out and I could show this to my professor and get some extra credit :)

word. All I got from that was that you are a man in montanna who deems himself a geek and can't hold a conversation.

Even if he's being chatted up...

:)


Mr Mephisto

I too learned about cognitive dissonance in my management class a few weeks ago. Cognitive dissoance refers to any incompatibility or inconsistency between attitudes or between behaviour and attitutudes. His example can relate to cognitive dissonance, but if I was teaching it to someone I wouldnt use it as an example. An example of cognitive dissonance is someone who tells their kids to brush their teeth after every meal but doesnt brush them themselves.

I just combined studying with surfing TFP. yay! :D

Gotcha. I agree not the best example, but I understand now :) Thank you very much.

No wonder you're in IT :)

I don't think that is quite an example of Cognitive Dissonance. Cd is when you change your thinking to justify your behavior. I found this example on the web:
<i>An example used by Festinger (1957) may assist in elucidating the theory. A habitual smoker who learns that smoking is bad for health will experience dissonance, because the knowledge that smoking is bad for health is dissonant with the cognition that he continues to smoke. He can reduce the dissonance by changing his behavior, that is, he could stop smoking, which would be consonant with the cognition that smoking is bad for health. Alternatively, the smoker could reduce dissonance by changing his cognition about the effect of smoking on health and believe that smoking does not have a harmful effect on health (eliminating the dissonant cognition). He might look for positive effects of smoking and believe that smoking reduces tension and keeps him from gaining weight (adding consonant cognitions). Or he might believe that the risk to health from smoking is negligible compared with the danger of automobile accidents (reducing the importance of the dissonant cognition). In addition, he might consider the enjoyment he gets from smoking to be a very important part of his life </i>

Good example Harshaw

If you think about the fact that by nature humans like to be consisent in their behavior, cognitive dissonance is basically a fancy term for using your preset perspective or ideas to judge a new situation with the goal of making it fit in with your current scope or view.