Topic: Self-Justification and cognitive dissonance
Think about a time in which you experienced cognitive dissonance
after performing a behavior (e.g., saying something you didn’t
believe, making a difficult choice, behaving in a way contrary to
your personal beliefs, expending considerable effort to become part
of a group that turns out to be worse than you had anticipated,
etc.). Describe the situation in a few sentences, and respond to
the following questions:
How did the cognitive dissonance make you feel? Why?...