Elster calls this pattern "adaptive preference formation". The story demonstrates what former Stanford University social psychologist Leon Festinger called cognitive dissonance. It is the distressing mental state in which people feel they “find themselves doing things that do not fit with what they know‚ or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold” (Leon Festinger‚ A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ Calif.‚ 1957‚ page 4). Cognitive
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Leon Ferstinger in 1957 developed a theory of cognitive dissonance. His theory sugguest that we all have an inner drive to stay true to our attitudes and beliefs to keep a balanced life. When Ferstinger first introduced the term cognitive dissonance to indicate the discomfort we feel whenever we inconsistent notions at the same time. This discomfort or dissonance motivates us to expend behavioral effort to reduce it and restore cognitive consistency Cognitive dissonance is a situation that involes
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In the 1500’s - 1600’s there were many explorers of the New World. One of those explorers was Juan Ponce de Leon. During this time period‚ the Spanish Crown sponsored many explorers‚ but because of his expedition Juan Ponce de Leon was rewarded. Although there were many Europeans‚ Juan Ponce de Leon was one of the hardest working explorers of his time. Juan Ponce De Leon‚ was born in Santervas de Campos‚ Spain in the year of 1460. He married Leonora‚ and had three children with her. When his earlier
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Gary Leon Ridgeway a 52 –year-old white male better known in history as the Green River Killer who preyed on runaways and prostitutes in the Seattle area from the years 1982 to 1998. Ridgway chose his victims because they were easy targets and he felt that he could get away theses murders for years and he did. Police records indicated that Ridgeway was responsible for murdering more than 48 eight women over a span of 20 years. The green river runs south of the city of Seattle
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http://library.thinkquest.org/C0112205/stalinsrussia.html http://ibatpv.org/projects/soviet_union/stalins%20impact%20on%20society.htm http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html Essay It was said by many that Stalin was a great and successful leader‚ however‚ though he was successful in industrialising Russia‚ Stalin proved to be a cruel‚ merciless leader to his people. The economic growth of Russia under Stalin’s rule was abundant‚ but the human loss was devastating. Stalin was also very
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When Animal Farm was first written by George Orwell in 1945 right after the second world war‚ Communism was just starting to show it self to the public. The book itself is a satire on Communism and the Russian Revolution which in George Orwell’s eyes had been counter productive. George Orwell was born in 1903 in The British Raj where he lived for about the first year of his life before moving to Great Britain proper(“George Orwell.”). After finishing college and finding he could not afford a university
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In fact‚ some of the characters in the story personify people who were a part of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is based on Joseph Stalin‚ Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky‚ Old Major is based on Karl Marx‚ and Mr. Jones is based on Tsar Nicholas II. Animal Farm starts out with a situational irony when the animals are very unhappy with the humans and decide to take over the farm and run it themselves. The two
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for each other Stalin and Trotsky had to the disagreements between Napoleon and Snowball‚ and Stalins to Napoleons show trials. Orwell retells the Russian Revolution through a fable and uses animals and farms. The first parallel is Trotsky to Snowball. Leon Trotsky being an a powerful speaker won the votes of many Russians. He had great influence over Russia because he was a war hero. Trotsky led the Red Army to victory in the civil war against the White Army‚ he was also very organized which led to his victory
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_____________________ “Animal Farm” is a novel written by George Orwell in the form of a fable. The author used animals on an English farm to tell the story of soviet communism. The pigs Napoleon and Snowball are representative of Joseph Stalin and Leon Trostky. By using various techniques‚ the author highlights how greed and desire for power destroyed the ideals of communism. At the beginning of the novel‚ the scene is set in the farm and it is shown that it is just an ordinary farm. The very
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preserving stability or order in conception of world and of self; first introduced in 1950s; has become major point of discussion and research in psychology (as cited in Compton ’s Interactive Encyclopedia‚ 1996). This theory was developed by Leon Festinger (1957)‚ is concerned with the relationships among cognitions. Cognition‚ for the purpose of this theory‚ may be thought of as a piece of knowledge‚ thoughts‚ feelings‚ or beliefs. Knowledge may be about an attitude‚ an emotion‚ a behavior
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