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Leon Festinger's cognitive Dissonance Theory
Title: Leon Festinger's cognitive Dissonance Theory
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
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Leon Festinger's cognitive Dissonance Theory
How do human beings make decisions? What triggers a person to take action at any given point? These are all questions that I will attempt to answer with my theoretical research into Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, as well as many of the other related theories. We often do not realize the psychological events that take place in our everyday lives. It is important to take notice of theories, such as the balance theory,
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in their everyday lives is, often times, far to powerful for dissonance to overcome. Perhaps research such as mine can be useful to further research into the area of dissonance and the use of tobacco. Much work still needs to be done in this area. We see so many people dying from lung cancer. Something must be done. Perhaps looking at effective methods of the use of cognitive dissonance can be helpful in this arena.
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