Rick All the early research on the boundary conditions and exact requirements for cognitive dissonance (with the mechanisms outlined by Festinger). So early on people said: it is not cognitive dissonance. It is self-affirmation, or self-perception or impression management. But those theories all lead to the same predictions as the original Festinger study. So researchers had to figure out how to test the original study in a way that pitted each of these theories against each other.
So eventually researchers figured out what the elements were that made each of these theories the best explanation. E.g., for self-perception theory to operate the attitude change does not have to motived by a desire to reduce discomfort, for impression management theory to be operating the person's private attitude does not have to change, and for self-affirmation to happen the change does not have to be directly related to the attitude-discrepant behavior. In the Festinger theory all these elements had to be true. Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Professor l Department of Psychology Chair, Health Studies Certificate Program Office hours Spring 2015: Tuesday 1:30-2:30, Thursday 3-4, and by appointment Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html From: Rick Froman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:52 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] non-falsifiable hypotheses What are some examples you use of non-falsifiable hypotheses? I don't mean non-testable in the sense that it is not open to empirical investigation but non-falsifiable in the sense that there is no possible outcome that would falsify the hypothesis. I will summarize for the list. Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman<http://bit.ly/16z4vcd> Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (479) 524-7295 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=42142 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-42142-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-42142-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=42145 or send a blank email to leave-42145-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
