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Using the Cognitive Dissonance Theory to Evaluate the Decision of ER Doctor Elizabeth Corday

decide whether it was right to go against the law to do good. Many situations come up for individuals where they must decide what ...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Festinger and Carlsmith's Seminal Study

Many of us have experienced cognitive dissonance. It happens when we say or do something that is against our personal beliefs. Thi...

Festinger, Sternberg, and Seligman on Human Motivation

In four pages this paper considers human motivation in a discussion of the attribute changing ABCDE method by Seligman, the Triang...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

Persuasive Argument Theories

are still being paid less than men for the same job and it is also true that men have been taught more negotiating skills than wom...

Developmental Schemas for Children

Piaget is bast known for his stages of cognitive development. His theory is still being used today as well as being researched. Pi...

Critically Analyzing Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory

This paper consists of an eight page overview, analysis, critique, and current debates concerning Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance...

Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Departmental Reorganization

In three pages the cognitive dissonance theory of Festinger is applied to the opposition to a directive that demands departmental ...

Financial Theory and Corporate Policy

choice will be made between the alternatives (Elton et al, 2002). There may be situations where there is certainty of outcome. Thi...

Ethical Decision-Making: Confidentiality

This research paper/essay pertain to ethical decision-making and confidentiality issues. Drawing on an episode of ER broadcast in ...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Approaches to Psychology

as cycle speed follows no set pattern and can overlap one another within the maturation process. "In early developmental theories...

Educational Philosophies of Jean Piaget

that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Delinquency and Deviance Theories

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Cognitive Learning Theories

information, linking new to old knowledge, schema, and scripts" (NSW HSC Online, n.d.). The major premise in the cognitive schoo...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

Premarital Sex

outside of marriage. Chastity is the watchword of Christian ethics pertaining to sexual relations. Its teachings reflect t...

Relevant Theories to Support International Expansion

theory. The foundations of what was to become the theory of comparative advantage start with the Scottish economist Adam S...

EMTALA and Illegal Aliens

to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kro...

The Communication Privacy Management Theory - Evaluation

to keep private information private and everyone believes they own their own private information. This certainly echoes the cultur...

The Communication Privacy Management Theory - Analysis

boundary. The private information falls within a boundary; the individual believes they own whatever information is included withi...

Expectancy Violation Theory

actor, that individuals evaluation of the behavior of the person conducting the interview are also likely to be positive according...

Racism and Cognitive Dissonance

into a state of psychological dissonance, which, in turn, produces an unpleasant tension (Rudolph, 2003). According to Festinger, ...