A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
by Leon Festinger · first published 1957
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Interestingly enough, Leon Festinger first developed the theory of cognitive dissonance after looking at the behavior of doomsday cults. His book, When Prophecy Fails is fascinating: it looks at a doomsday cult in the 50s that believed aliens were going to rescue the cult from the world's…
on “What Happens to the Brain During Cognitive Dissonance? (2015)” ↗The book was When Prophecy Fails [1] by Leon Festinger who, if memory serves, was one of the pioneers in the theory of cognitive dissonance. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
on “My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team” ↗…morning, and I still haven't been to bed from Friday. In fact, from my subjective point of view it's still "Friday night" since I haven't slept yet. For the past couple of hours I've been reading in A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger, and then watching this video "Inference: A Logical-Philosophical Perspective with Alexander Paseau"[1]. I'll hit the hay in another hour or so, then sleep till around 1:00 PM or so…
on “Ask HN: What does your typical Saturday look like?” ↗In When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world.[1] A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become…
on “Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT” ↗On that particular day I was going through a bunch of different books, trying to work out what my plan was going to be for the next little while. Of those ones, I wound up finishing A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance and the Sensation and Perception one. I also knocked out a pretty good chunk of the one titled just Memory. The rest got bumped down the stack a bit. I kinda getting back to the place now where I want…
on “Laptops with Stickers” ↗…physical apparatus and associated software for the "box of sensors" thing, I've been going back and doing a lot of reading on metaphysics and epistemology. I also just read Leon Festinger's[2] book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, and am increasingly convinced that cognitive dissonance is an important part of how learning works. I can't shake the idea that there's a crucial connection between cognitive dissonance and "belief…
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2022)” ↗