Cognitive dissonance
The term 'Cognitive dissonance' was created by Leon Festinger, a social psychologist and professor, in 1957. He infiltrated into an eschatological religious group which were waiting for doomsday caused by 'Great flood'. They seemed to trust in a leader's direction sincererly. However, the last day supposed to perish didn't come. Festinger expected believers to get angry against their head of the group. But followers didn't show a wrath against the leader rather than they were relieved with no happening.
Festinger recognized that human beings usually are skillful to deceive themselves to expel from unpleasant, irrational experience. To speak, we can't put up with our being weak or shabby enough to be hurted by other people and specific situaltions. On the contrary, we want to give an excuse not to violent against normal social system and strongly deny our wrong behavior or belief. It is really convenient system for our mental health. We are ready to defence ourselves for the fear that we are not logical and reasonable. Sometimes, we go through conflicts with our target to go on or not since it often has incompatible structures in characteristic. We can't be decisive due to various sides inside target. In fact, we hesitate to have the critical result.
I sympathize on human being's poor psychology which want to escape from unbearable conditions. But at the same time, I am amazed at its safeguard to protect us. If we don't have had such a mental device, some of us must have gone mad or been humiliated to death.
Festinger recognized that human beings usually are skillful to deceive themselves to expel from unpleasant, irrational experience. To speak, we can't put up with our being weak or shabby enough to be hurted by other people and specific situaltions. On the contrary, we want to give an excuse not to violent against normal social system and strongly deny our wrong behavior or belief. It is really convenient system for our mental health. We are ready to defence ourselves for the fear that we are not logical and reasonable. Sometimes, we go through conflicts with our target to go on or not since it often has incompatible structures in characteristic. We can't be decisive due to various sides inside target. In fact, we hesitate to have the critical result.
I sympathize on human being's poor psychology which want to escape from unbearable conditions. But at the same time, I am amazed at its safeguard to protect us. If we don't have had such a mental device, some of us must have gone mad or been humiliated to death.
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