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Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Give a brief definition and example of cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, or participates in an action that goes against one of these three, and experiences psychological stress because of that.

Explanation:

an example of cognitive dissonance is when people smoke (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition), they are in a state of cognitive dissonance.

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