Social Dissonance

The concept of dissonance was once enormously controversial but its support through five decades of research has made it one of the most widely accepted concepts in social psychology.

Social dissonance. Sometimes people can reduce dissonance by changing things in their environment in particular in their social environment. Cognitive dissonance is used to promote positive social behaviours such as increased condom use. Other studies indicate that cognitive dissonance can be used to encourage people to act pro socially such as campaigns against public littering campaigns against racial prejudice and compliance with anti speeding campaigns. Social dissonance claims that by amplifying alienation in performance and participation in order to understand how we are constructed through various forms of mediation we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social and in doing so discover for ourselves that social dissonance is the territory within which we already find ourselves the condition we inhabit.

Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology. For example someone who smokes might surround themselves with other people who smoke instead of with people who have disapproving attitudes about cigarettes. Want to become part of a supportive community that loves to see each other grow and become better at the game. Looking to get better at monster hunter.