Leon Festinger, b. 5/8/1919, a social Ψ known for his theories of #CognitiveDissonance and #SocialComparison. #Festinger earned his PhD @UIowa.edu in 1942. His varied career, including studies in social Ψ, perception, & archeology make him a role model of #LifelongLearning. #ColorfulPsychologists
“… A central one is confirmation bias — the fact that we seek out and remember information that confirms what we believe, and ignore or forget information that disputes it.”
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“… The strength to continue in the movement was derived, not largely from the rationalizations, but from the very energy of the group itself and its dedication to the cause. This explains why proselytizing was so successful later in reinforcing the group's sagging belief system.”
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“… There is strength in numbers, and individuals take strength from beliefs they share with a group.”
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“… The conclusion was that, to minimize the negative impact of the failure, believers forgo reason and proselytize even harder.”
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“… Cognitive dissonance was certainly in glaring evidence … after President Obama released his Hawaiian birth certificate.
As an Atlantic wire headline put it: “The Birthers Have Spoken: They Still Don’t Think Obama’s Legit.””
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‘When facts fail: UFO cults, ‘birthers’ and cognitive dissonance’
“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”
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“… a QAnon follower in the weeks and months after Biden’s inauguration failed to bring about the cleansing storm that had been promised—can be exactly as useful as reasoning with someone who is in love with the wrong person.”
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“… The need to reduce or avoid cognitive dissonance can’t account for the contents of strange beliefs, whether they are in the realm of religion, flying saucers, or politics. But it goes a long way to explain their stickiness. …”
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“… studied Oahspe, the Faithist Bible that was channeled to the American dentist John Ballou Newbrough in 1882; and dabbled in the freshly minted religion of Scientology. At some point, she’d begun to receive communications from other planes of existence.“
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“… The most important thing is never admitting defeat. Or, as Dorothy Martin put it to her followers at one difficult point, “The plan has never gone astray. We don’t know what the plan is, but it has never gone astray.””
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wearethemutants.com/2018/07/16/t...
“… but in 1957, when he published A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, it was a revolutionary theory that would go onto influence the study not only of psychology, but politics, economics, and other fields.”
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“… Cognitive Dissonance theory deals with the need people have to make their beliefs fit together with some kind of consistency -- it says that dissonant cognitions are uncomfortable for those who have them, so people try to reduce this discomfort in some way or another.”
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“… Indeed the members of the groups seem to have welcomed "messages" from almost any source other than ordinary reason or sense perception.”
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“… But this all has to do with maintaining a sense of self-esteem and alleviating cognitive dissonance.”
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“… They did this through accepting Ms. Keech’s automatically written message that they had saved this world. This defies all logic and outsiders would wonder why, if she had defrauded them to that point, would they believe her now?”
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“… Her loyal followers were to be rescued from this apocalypse by aliens aboard flying saucers who were communicating with her by telepathy. Several dates for the end were foretold by Mrs. Keech, but each passed uneventfully.”
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“… And when the forecast disaster failed to happen, the true believers didn’t abandon their trust in Martin and her message; instead, they searched for explanations that fit into their already-developed worldview, explained the failure away, and continued along the same path.”
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“… Recognizing this as an opportunity to test their theories personally in a real-life situation, they inserted themselves into the group of “Seekers,” and chronicled events immediately leading up to December 21st as well as the disappointing aftermath of the failed prophecy.”
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“When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World is the story of Dorothy Martin and her small group of followers, and how their lives were impacted when her apocalyptic prophecy failed to come true.”
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“… that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view.”
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La misión del grupo era clara: puesto que no se podía cambiar la realidad física, había que conseguir la sanción social. Convence y te convencerás
Al final acabó disolviéndose.
#Sectas #cultos #secta #disonanciacognitiva #Festinger
Ea. Seguimos :-)
“… As such, the group needed to resolve this conflict, which was achieved by adopting a third belief in that they had in fact saved the world.”
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