Religiosity Cognitive Dissonance And Attitude

Author : Anna-Sophia Fritsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656171920
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religiosity, Cognitive Dissonance and Attitude written by Anna-Sophia Fritsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Psychological Institute), course: Introduction to Individual and Context, language: English, abstract: In the United States of America, a high degree of attention has been paid to the issue of how to legislate abortion. During the past two decades, notions of the so-called "Culture-Wars" emerged, referring to an increasing polarization of the American public over the abortion topic along the lines of religiously motivated "pro-life" and secular "pro-choice" activist groups. This paper is an effort to analyze from a psychological perspective how religiosity mediates people's attitudes towards abortion legislation, the hypothesis being that the more embedded a person is in an increasingly conservative religious community, the less likely she will be to experience cognitive dissonance over ambivalent topics like abortion, because she adheres to the amplified religious position on it. It was found that religiosity leads to more dismissive attitudes towards abortion in general. Furthermore, the more conservative a religious denomination is in the terms of Bible literalism, the stricter is the view of its adherents that abortion should be forbidden by law in most or all cases. As Bible literalism entails the belief of being indisputably right about any issue touched by it, it leads to attitude persistence, which keeps the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" activist groups from finding a compromise. However, contrary to what the "Culture-Wars"-hypothesis suggests, data from public opinion polls do not show an increasing polarization in attitudes over the issue.

Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804709118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance written by Leon Festinger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.

Author : Eddie Harmon-Jones
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433830105
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Dissonance written by Eddie Harmon-Jones and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2019 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.

Author : Nico H. Frijda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521787345
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotions and Beliefs written by Nico H. Frijda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the different ways in which emotions influence beliefs.

Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625589778
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Prophecy Fails written by Leon Festinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.

Author : Joel Cooper
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 184920344X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Dissonance written by Joel Cooper and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′Dr. Joel Cooper has been at the very forefront of research on dissonance theory for decades now. In this book, he provides a brilliant and engagingly-written review of the 50-year history of dissonance research and a masterful account of the ensuing developments in the theory. The book will be an outstanding resource for readers familiar with dissonance research and an enlightening introduction for those who are not′ - Professor Russell H. Fazio, Ohio State University Why is it that people who smoke continue to do so knowing how bad it is for them? What drives people to committing adultery even though they inherently believe this is wrong? What′s the outcome of this contradiction in the mind? Cognitive dissonance has been an important and influential theory since Leon Festinger published his classic work in 1957. It is known by every social psychologist, most psychologists of any stripe, and the lay public, making its way into such mainstream publications as The New York Times with increasing frequency and accuracy. Ultimately, dissonance has become one of the most popularly known expressions of social psychological insights, making its way into the literature in consumer, health and economic behavior, and has become a frequently used explanation of political behavior in the popular press and magazines. In marking the 50th anniversary of the theory′s inception, Joel Cooper - arguably the scholar most associated with dissonance research in the past few decades - has presented a beautiful, modern and comprehensive analysis of the state of dissonance theory. This book charts the progress of dissonance theory, assessing its impact not only within our understanding of psychology but in everyday experiences as well. It should be important reading for students in social psychology, either undergraduate or graduate, but equally relevant to a host of other readers who need to understand or share the same passions for appreciating the significance of cognitive dissonance in the human psyche.

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195371798
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Souls in Transition written by Christian Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.

Author : Brian Mullen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461246342
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Group Behavior written by Brian Mullen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1983, we began to organize a symposium entitled "General Social Psychological Theories of Group Behavior." Our goal was to encourage the extension and application of basic current social psychology to group behavior. The symposium was presented in the spring of 1984 at the Eastern Psychological Association convention in Baltimore and the interest that it generated led to discussions with colleagues and friends about similar efforts by social psychologists, eventually resulting in the present book. Some clarification about the contents is in order. First, the theories presented here are clearly social psychological in scope and level of analysis, as discussed in the Introduction (Chapter 1). However, we are not trying to encompass sociological, anthropological, political, or historical theoretical approaches to group behavior. Second, while the theories comprise a wide-ranging and representative, if not quite exhaustive, selection of social psychological theories of group behavior, there are some interesting and general perspectives that are not represented. For example, one perspective that is conspicuous by its absence is some variant of learning theory. Aside from the rare, notable exception (e.g., Buss, 1979), little work currently is being done on group behavior from a learning theoretic perspective. Our inclusion or exclusion of a theory reflects our judgment regarding its currency and accessibility to social psychological researchers.

Author : Jason Slone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198044284
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theological Incorrectness written by Jason Slone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do religious people believe what they shouldn't -- not what others think they shouldn't believe, but things that don't accord with their own avowed religious beliefs? D. Jason Slone terms this phenomenon "theological incorrectness." He argues that it exists because the mind is built in such a way that it's natural for us to think divergent thoughts simultaneously. Human minds are great at coming up with innovative ideas that help them make sense of the world, he says, but those ideas do not always jibe with official religious beliefs. From this fact we derive the important lesson that what we learn from our environment -- religious ideas, for example -- does not necessarily cause us to behave in ways consistent with that knowledge. Slone presents the latest discoveries from the cognitive science of religion and shows how they help us to understand exactly why it is that religious people do and think things that they shouldn't.

Author : Ajzen, I
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335217036
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes, Personality And Behaviour written by Ajzen, I and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I denne reviderede udgave beskrives den seneste udvikling indenfor personlighedsforskning og tests af personlighed og adfærd. Bogen giver indsigt i, hvorledes man ved hjælp af teorier om personlighed kan forklare og forudsige menneskelig adfærd, og hvilke implikationer dette kan have.