one of two (low choice). Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) found that the greater the monetary incentive for 5s to argue the merits of a series of boring tasks, the less were the 5s own attitudes toward the tasks likely to become more favorable. The greater apparent choice in the low incentive condition seemed to produce greater dissonance regarding the persuasion attempt, and this dissonance was ...

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...

The Covid-19 pandemic has a broad impact on various aspects and lines. One of them is that the country’s economy not moved forward as before. unemployment rate increase among iGeneration who have just graduated from college feels confused anxious because they found job, thus negatively affected them. This research aims to analyze in facing cognitive dissonance theory by linking interpersonal co...

In traditional models, votes are an expression of preferences and beliefs. Psychological theories of cognitive dissonance suggest, however, that behavior may shape preferences. In this view, the very act of voting may influence political attitudes. A vote for a candidate may lead to more favorable interpretations of his actions in the future. We test the empirical relevance of cognitive dissona...

This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and pessimism. In stage 1, we induce optimism or pessimism onto subjects by randomly assigning a high or low piece rate for performing a cognitive task. We find that participants receiving the low piece rate are significantly more pessimistic with respect to performance on this ta...

Abstract: Although music exists in every observed culture, ethnomusicologists suggest that music is not the “universal language,” because of the tremendous variation between music of different cultures. However, evidences from mathematics, psychoacoustics, neurobiology, cognitive science, and anthropology suggest an innate inclination of human beings toward Western harmony. The present study re...

We propose a model for dialogue between non task oriented agents, based on the dissonance and relevance theories. Non task oriented agents are studied as a model for non expert agents, as opposed to task oriented agents, in order to provide models for social science simulations. Dialogue between non task oriented agents can not be modelled like task oriented dialogue because no criterium is pro...