Discussed in When Prophecy Fails, for 10 points, name this psychological phenomenon outlined by Leon Festinger in which a person holds two conflicting ideas.
This theory was used by Elliot Aronson in one study to analyze a group of children who were forbidden to play with a toy robot. People were alternatively paid one dollar or twenty dollars to recommend the task of continually turning pegs in a board in one test of this concept, and it was also examined in a book about Marion Keech's cult that believed the planet Clarion was sending a UFO to rescue them from an apocalyptic flood. Discussed in When Prophecy Fails, for 10 points, name this psychological phenomenon outlined by Leon Festinger in which a person holds two conflicting ideas.
This theory was used by Elliot Aronson in one study to analyze a group of children who were forbidden to play with a toy robot.
{cognitive dissonance}