For 10 points, name this phenomenon that was described by Leon Festinger, in which people experience discomfort when they try to reconcile contradictory beliefs.
A theory that opposes this theory claims that people infer their attitudes from observing their behavior the same way an outside observer would. Daryl Bem's self-perception theory opposes this phenomenon, which one study attributed to "forced compliance." A community of UFO cultists dealing with the effects of this phenomenon is analyzed in When Prophecy Fails, which was written by a psychologist who tested this phenomenon by offering students either one or twenty dollars to perform boring tasks. For 10 points, name this phenomenon that was described by Leon Festinger, in which people experience discomfort when they try to reconcile contradictory beliefs.
A theory that opposes this theory claims that people infer their attitudes from observing their behavior the same way an outside observer would.
cognitive dissonance