Title: Cognitive dissonance
Description: Defines cognitive dissonance and offers historical background on cognitive dissonance theory. It describes key psychological studies by Leon Festinger, James Carlsmith, Eliot Aronson, Judson Mills, Jack Brehm, Ronald Comer, James Laird, Joel Cooper, and Russell Fazio; outlines the essential components of cognitive dissonance; and looks at such contemporary studies as Matthew Lieberman's 2001 study and Laurie Smith's 2007 experiment. The DVD also explores such alternative explanations as social perception theory.
Subjects: Educational films, Cognitive dissonance