301 - Cognitive Dissonance - Part Two

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode we welcome Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano, a political scientist who studies how cognitive dissonance affects all sorts of political behavior. She’s also the co-host of a podcast about activism called "What Do We Want?" and she wrote a book that’s coming out in May of 2025 titled don’t talk about politics which is about how to discuss politics without necessarily talking about politics.

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0:16.9	Middle of the show.
0:46.0	Music it out middle of the show you know Welcome to the You are not so smart Welcome to the You Are Not So Episode Episode Episode 3.01
0:49.9	I'm going to be a good the You're Not So Smart podcast, and this is part two in a two-part series about
1:13.9	cognitive dissonance. And I could do a 500-part series about cognitive dissonance. We could just
1:22.8	start a whole new podcast that was only about cognitive dissonance if we wanted to. It's a very old idea in psychology, about 70 years old, and there are lots of tributaries
1:34.1	and offshoots from the original research.
1:37.9	The last episode, we discussed the sort of inception of all of this.
1:51.0	And in this episode, I want to talk about the landmark study that came out of the stuff we were talking about in the previous episode.
1:54.4	And let's just get started.
1:55.8	Let's do that.
1:56.2	I want to begin by telling you about one of my favorite studies ever, about anything, like in all
2:03.8	of psychology and all of science, really. And it just so happens to be one of the original
2:10.1	landmark studies into cognitive dissonance. So to set the stage, let's go back to 1959 to Stanford University,
2:21.0	where the psychologist Leon Festinger is about to change the way we think and feel,
2:27.8	about the way we think and feel.
2:43.5	Music think and feel. Officially, the authors of this study in which this experiment appears are Leon
2:49.3	Festinger and Meryl Carl Smith. We Leon Festinger and Merrill Carl Smith.
2:52.8	We met Festinger in the previous episode of this show and joined him as he and his team
2:58.3	infiltrated a doomsday cult to observe their behavior after the day of doom came and went.
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