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Originally Posted by xSCWx
Why hasn't ChicagoRy been banned yet?
He was a good poster but I think we all know it is time.
Also, I have no idea what's going on here. But I'd like to note that my recently completed thesis experiment demonstrated the effects of cognitive dissonance again, as students who were given a salient choice to write an essay arguing for a decrease in financial aid rated the plan better than those who were just told to compete the essay. Interestingly (this word means different things to you and me), after I told two groups a week later that they either had little choice and it was just part of the experiment's requirements, or that they made a choice and the decision was noted, there were no significant changes in attitude, even while subjects self-reported different levels of choice in the 4 different conditions. This supports dissonance as a "at the time of the action" phenomenon - once people convince themselves that the plan wasn't that bad, no more work needs to be done, and the consolation that "you didn't have a choice" falls on deaf ears, even though that keeps people from supporting the plan in the first place.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE IS NO JOKE.