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To: maceng2 who wrote (1444396)	3/6/2024 9:42:47 AM
From: Qone0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575564

>> So which is worse being a Nazi or being a spy for Stalin?<< There is no worse, once you start to compare which is worse. You enter into cognitive dissonance. In When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world. [1] A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable and is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance. [1] [2] They tend to make changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance ( rationalization) or by avoiding circumstances and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance ( confirmation bias). [1] [2] [3] Coping with the nuances of contradictory ideas or experiences is mentally stressful. As it requires energy and effort to sit with those seemingly opposite things that all seem true. Festinger argued that some people would inevitably resolve the dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe. [4]