{"id":67982,"date":"2025-11-11T22:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/l-festingers-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:35:50","slug":"l-festingers-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/l-festingers-theory-of-cognitive-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"L. Festinger&#8217;s Theory of Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>scientific theory, according to which positive emotional experiences arise when the real results of a person&#8217;s activities correspond to the plans. Negative emotions arise when there is a discrepancy (dissonance) between the expected and actual results of activity. Subjectively, the state of cognitive dissonance is usually experienced by a person as discomfort, and he seeks to get rid of it. The way out of the state of cognitive dissonance can be twofold: either to change cognitive expectations so that they correspond to the actual result obtained; or try to get a new result that would correspond to previous expectations (knowledge). Thus, the arising emotional states are considered as the main cause of the corresponding actions and deeds.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scientific theory, according to which positive emotional experiences arise when the real results of a person&#8217;s activities correspond to the plans. Negative emotions arise when there is a discrepancy (dissonance) between the expected and actual results of activity. Subjectively, the state of cognitive dissonance is usually experienced by a person as discomfort, and he seeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}