Cognitive dissonance (Dissonant & Justified)

A song on cognitive dissonance and self justification to help my students study for the upcoming AP exam. The song's lyric ideas were collaboratively created in a a wiki which I arranged and formatted into this song. I had help with the artwork as well with Allison Winslow contributing 'the dumped guy' and Victoria Banos contributing the fox and grapes.

To hear a remixed version of the song (by Teshawn Soumah) click here http://www.bradwray.com/mp3s/Cog%20Diss%20wvox.mp3

To hear more from Brad Wray (http://www.bradwray.com) see below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsbmjNLQkc
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=59962

Brad Wray's band: http://deepseacavalry.bandcamp.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• AP Psychology
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Brad Wray
• Allison Winslow
• Victoria Banos
• Teshawn Soumah

[mistaAnthonyWilson]

a POLARITY to POLARITY perhaps.

Thanks, is justification inherently part of thee concept, "cognitive dissonance"?

[wraybm1]

@mistaAnthonyWilson Self justification is one of the most common ways we resolve dissonance.  The other way is to change the cognition i.e. "I am not the greatest" or "I should stop smoking." It's easy to see how self justification is more common.

[princespinkerbel]

Hilarious! I saw this in my psych class last night -- thought it was great! Nice job :)

[xxsakuraphie]

this is such a cute song. my psych teacher showed it to us in class.

[YourFavoriteKilljoy]

Thank you! I was having a little trouble totally understanding the concept. Now I will remember forever!

[adellera]

Thank you very much for sharing your video, that both makes the concept stick in the brain and it's so funny :)

I'm reading Elliot Aronson's book "The Social Animal" (for fun) and I was looking for additional examples of "cognitive dissonance" - yours are definitely the best I've found - thanks!

[t3hcoppa]

Grapes grow on a vine.

[neonbackpackk]

the fox wanted grapes but he couldnt reach.

[spaceh0g]

grapes grow from vines, not trees. that fox have have grapes if he wants. DISSONANCE!

[SorinMihaiMNS]

@wraybm1 Well...is there a problem if somebody will not be able to use self justification ? Will that cause the apparition of obsessive thoughts following to the fact that the dissonance will not be solved ? Because self justification distorts reality, doesn't it ?So I guess it could be very well used to manipulate people to do...I dunno...anything :)) considering the logical gaps that you could create. I mean you really could create fanaticism using this :)) Wow, am I diabolic or what?

[SorinMihaiMNS]

@Jamesrobification Justify :)) :P

[torty1993]

Wow, you just made that concept really easy to understand. Thank you.