<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676030304499749068</id><updated>2011-04-21T10:47:13.629-07:00</updated><category term='Cognitive Dissonance'/><category term='social psychology topics'/><category term='social psychology'/><category term='psychology cogintive'/><title type='text'>The God.is Theory</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Eye</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17594985351728664581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/Sj4QuA5RrUI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Ehkaw47f0L0/S220/maat-balance-marjorie-borgella.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676030304499749068.post-7928440715840748292</id><published>2009-04-11T11:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T13:16:11.565-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social psychology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social psychology topics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cognitive Dissonance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='psychology cogintive'/><title type='text'>cognitive dissonance</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/SeD486CpSQI/AAAAAAAAABI/-b13Tr2gXT8/s1600-h/project+pics+065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/SeD486CpSQI/AAAAAAAAABI/-b13Tr2gXT8/s320/project+pics+065.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323528484808116482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/SeDsS5VFYuI/AAAAAAAAAAw/6T5JoGiLgOo/s1600-h/Little+dragon+051.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;cognitive dissonance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; the “ideas” or “cognitions” in question may include attitudes and beliefs, and also the awareness of one’s behavior.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p&gt;the theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; attitudes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, beliefs,&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;behaviors&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by justifying or rationalizing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognition. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;this happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. for example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;when people’s ideas are consistent with each other, they are in a state of harmony or consonance. if cognitions are unrelated, they are categorized as irrelevant to each other and do not lead to dissonance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3676030304499749068-7928440715840748292?l=thegodistheory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/feeds/7928440715840748292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/cognitive-dissonance.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/7928440715840748292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/7928440715840748292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/cognitive-dissonance.html' title='cognitive dissonance'/><author><name>Eye</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17594985351728664581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/Sj4QuA5RrUI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Ehkaw47f0L0/S220/maat-balance-marjorie-borgella.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/SeD486CpSQI/AAAAAAAAABI/-b13Tr2gXT8/s72-c/project+pics+065.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676030304499749068.post-461339053939254703</id><published>2009-04-11T10:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T11:07:14.331-07:00</updated><title type='text'>about me. my views in less than a minute!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;"&gt;love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;loving you even if it hurts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;you may not understand my way to your surface&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;now, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;but you soon will. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;we've left marks on each other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;not like scars but marks that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;last for lifetimes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-family: georgia;"&gt;illuminating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt; the path way to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;where our souls will meet once more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;a familiar occurrence occurring about&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;a perfected &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"&gt;3&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;we are the truth we seek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;the change &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;the hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;can cease &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;without action that causes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;a global shift in mind &amp;amp; spirit. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;warming the globe. globally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;that's the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"&gt;ONLY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt; carbon tax i'm willing to pay! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3676030304499749068-461339053939254703?l=thegodistheory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/feeds/461339053939254703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/about-me-my-views-in-less-than-minute.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/461339053939254703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/461339053939254703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/about-me-my-views-in-less-than-minute.html' title='about me. my views in less than a minute!'/><author><name>Eye</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17594985351728664581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/Sj4QuA5RrUI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Ehkaw47f0L0/S220/maat-balance-marjorie-borgella.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3676030304499749068.post-3599365575053342107</id><published>2009-04-11T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-11T10:29:41.119-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the reason</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;the absolute reason racism, classicism, and many other isms that plague this planet work is because we feed into it 100%. we give it the energy that it needs to spread like disease. throwing gas on a fire gets it extra hot, enough to burn bridges that have been built to withstand certain levels of destruction. like anything else the bridge has it breaking point. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;i am a bridge &amp;amp; I've been broken because the energy that makes up me has been misappropiated and misdirected. separated at birth, umbilical broken, cut off from the TRUE connection. I couldn't have understood its meaning dwelling in a lower state of consciousness, however i am.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3676030304499749068-3599365575053342107?l=thegodistheory.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/feeds/3599365575053342107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/reason.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/3599365575053342107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3676030304499749068/posts/default/3599365575053342107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegodistheory.blogspot.com/2009/04/reason.html' title='the reason'/><author><name>Eye</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17594985351728664581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2qBQDR0T7M0/Sj4QuA5RrUI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Ehkaw47f0L0/S220/maat-balance-marjorie-borgella.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
