Got cognitive dissonance? Learn helpful tips for either lying to yourself about it or growing as a person. Talk psych to us: Instagram: @talkpsychtomepodcastEmail: tp2mpodcast@gmail.comBonus: Watch Roi Ben-Yehuda's video on how to shake up your identity and "offend yourself"Further Reading:The Effect of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group by Aronson & Mills (1959)When Prophecy Fails by Fesinger, Riecken & Schachter (1956)Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance by Festinger & Carlsmith (1959)Effect of the severity of threat on the devaluation of forbidden behavior by Aronson & Carlsmith (1963)Adaptive Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals by Wrosch et. al. (2003)A challenge to human evolution—cognitive dissonance by Perlovsky (2013)Respectable Challenges to Respectable Theory by Vaidis & Bran (2019) What Is Cognitive Consistency, and Why Does It Matter? by Gawronski & Brannon (2019)Consistency-based compliance across cultures by Petrova, Cialdini, and Sills (2007)Preference for consistency: The development of a valid measure and the discovery of surprising behavioral implications by Cialdini, Trost, & Newsom (1995)The Consistency Principle in Interpersonal Communication by Mojzisch et. al. (2014)Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs by Taber & Lodge (2006)Produced by Scarlet Moon ThingsMusic by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings