SciShow Psych: Why It's So Hard to Admit You're Wrong | Cognitive Dissonance

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Content of the Lesson: Sometimes our behavior and our beliefs just… don’t match. And a lot of times this mismatch can lead to stress. What’s happening in our brains when we’re inconsistent? Can we learn anything from this discomfort? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/Cognitive-Dissonance-Intro-Sample.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=90ElDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT2&ots=GXPGUpzv-f&dq https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2011/04/when-facts-fail-ufo-cults-birthers-and-cognitive-dissonance/ https://theconversation.com/why-wont-scientific-evidence-change-the-minds-of-loch-ness-monster-true-believers-97307 https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/june/jay-van-bavel-on-fake-news.html https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266672849_False_memories_for_dissonance_inducing_events https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982217305468 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/5/1780 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/dorsolateral-prefrontal-cortex https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephanie_Jean_Tsang/publication/313892386_Cognitive_Discrepancy_Dissonance_and_Selective_Exposure/links/5bef8df592851c6b27c4a881/Cognitive-Discrepancy-Dissonance-and-Selective-Exposure.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/the-christmas-the-aliens-didnt-come/421122/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627313002705 https://archive.org/details/theoryofcognitiv00fest/page/2/mode/1up https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2006.t01-3-.x?journalCode=ppsa https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01201/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4169280/ https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~abaron/downloads/GonzalezDunlopBaron_DevSci2016.pdf https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/josi.12341 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930920/ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1086492.pdf


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