Social norms, cognitive dissonance and the timing of marriage

Cognitive dissonance and social change

When people behave immorally according to their own standards, they feel bad. Rational people may therefore engage in less of an immoral activity than would he in their material self-interest. Despite this fact, I show that increasing people’s distaste for being immoral can increase the level of immoral activities. This can happen because of the psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance:...

Early marriage, social networks and the transmission of norms

the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Social Networks

Cidade Universitária São Paulo, Brazil Zip: 05508-030. Email: [email protected] Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo. Address for correspondence: Clinical Neuroscience Lab “Linc” at Rua Botucatu 740 3o andarVila Clementino São Paulo, Brazil. Zip: 04023-900. Email: [email protected] 3 Post-doc Researcher at the Neuroimaging in Psychiatry Lab “LIM-21” and NAPNA-USP. Rua Dr. Ovidio Pi...

Norms and Principles . Putting Social and Cognitive

We all probably agree that the use of language cannot be characterised in terms of grammar only, and therefore a complementary theory is needed to account for linguistic performance: this theory we call pragmatics. However, a quick look at current bibliography is enough to realise that under the same label a wide variety of approaches coexist, each with its own framework, basic tools and intere...