Cognitive Dissonance – Part 6: What Do You Believe? May 31, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Cognitive Dissonance.Tags: aids, beliefs, condom, future, intentions, Philippines, time
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Our beliefs are the foundations of our existence. In the simplest terms, we believe we are alive, so we strive to live and better our lives.
In the study of dying patients, many doctors have said that those patients who die first are those people who are resigned to death, and admitted to themselves that they will die or want to die. For some reason, that intention manifests itself, more than any other physiological condition or physical trauma.
Consider for instance, this story of a man who claims to have seen himself in the future:
What’s your first impulse upon hearing this tale? To understand or to disprove? To accept or to reject?
Studying cognitive dissonance is a toss-up between these two things: what we believe and what we cannot accept–and our attempt to bridge these two things.
Since I posted something about AIDS recently, see how you deal with cognitive dissonance on these two ideas:
- There is a low incidence of condom use in the Philippines.
- There is a low incidence of AIDS in the Philippines.
Check out this article about the above statements and try to check how your brain responds to the informative stimuli.
More cognitive dissonance to follow.
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