Chris, I agree that the Monty Hall issue doesn't appear to have any relevance to the studies that put cognitive dissonance "on the map", that is the studies with the boring peg turning task. It appears that the Monty Hall issue only applies to the studies that were done to establish the concept of "post decisional dissonance" - our tendency (later on) to downgrade things that we decided not to buy.
So I agree that these studies don't undermine the concept of cognitive dissonance at all. However, as you say - it is interesting that despite being such an "old" concept in the history of psychology cognitive dissonance is still being talked about. Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.psychfilespodcast.com On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote: > > > > Michael Britt wrote: >> >> If I may follow-up on this (because something more just occurred to >> me): if Brehm had not eliminated the subjects who chose the less- >> desired object, then on the second rating of the objects the lower >> rated objects would have been rated higher and no "spread" would >> have occurred and so no support for "post decisional dissonance"? >> Do I have that right? >> > Michael, > > I too have had difficulty applying Chen's reanalysis of the monkey- > candy experiment to the "classic" cognitive dissonance findings: peg > turning and car buying. I can find no obvious occurrence of odds- > changing in those scenarios. I think that Chen has probably > correctly reinterpreted the monkey-candy finding, but I have yet to > see how it applies across the board to cognitive dissonance findings > generally. > > See my blog entry on it here: http://ahp.yorku.ca/?p=413 > > Chris > -- > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > > "Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise > his or her views." > - Melissa Lane, in a Guardian obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton > ================================= > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
