Cognitive Dissonance & Michael | Ted Gideonse | TEDxUCIrvine

[thethYearSeniors]

I just had the realization that the purpose of religion is to create a "story" to fix cognitive dissonance. It makes perfect sense now.

[dawnpottersander]

Thank you for sharing this and honoring your friend, Michael with us.

[RayMarzFilms]

The title of this video should be “about my friend Michael”

[SageCounselling]

Thank you for sharing Ted, a really engaging talk. Sorry for the loss of your friend Michael.

[Sweetwildflower]

Very personal journey shared in understanding Cognitive Dissonance with informative help. Thank you🌺Namaste

[reneeklein]

What a beautiful painful story. Perhaps this will help someone before it's too late.

[globalvillage]

Cognitive dissonance is extremely uncomfortable and painful.

[thethYearSeniors]

sometimes cognitive dissonance can be used as a positive tool. I use it all the time to improve myself. I think this is how "positive affirmations" work. You say something like, "I am a brilliant person!". When reality doesn't match that you change your behavior to seem more brilliant. You force yourself to work harder to finish a degree or learn new things to get closer to being brilliant. The only problem is it never changes that underlying feeling that you are a fraud. You will eventually have people saying you are brilliant, but it isn't the motivator for continued improvement. You are motivated by the dissonance that continues. Maybe that was a factor in why this guy was such a good lyricist and composer. Maybe his schema was all invented by himself and he was just fighting cognitive dissonance all the time.

[Axhole]

I always come to the comments and check before I look at these goofy required videos for my PSYCH class. Thank you all for sparing me a pain.

[comboldam]

Wow I accidentally opened this video but I was actually useful!

[uranrising]

In a world I inhabit, we have an alternative word to schema, with roughly the same meaning.
That word is Gestalt, or, very roughly, picture (or formation or pattern).
We all make pictures all the time of many aspects of our experience, in order to make some sense.

[yavarjn]

There has been a lot of research done about the topic, I just learned about it minutes ago, watched two short videos and I think I can talk about it much better than he did. He spoke about their relationship with Michael, their lives and a lot of unnecessary information that has nothing to do with Cognitive Dissonance.

[sophiachick]

Great job explaining cognitive dissonance. 👏🏽👏🏽

[MedalionDS]

Hypocrisy is winning. Do as I say, not as I do or even say... I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, as long as it benefits me at some level even if it contradicts something... the point is... I need to win and get what I want.

[arisgnnks]

The quality of TED is hitting the bottom with these stories about Michael who banged you and you feel in love with him after a party...

[vegandavid]

When it comes to animal agriculture and eating animal products....

[tomneedham]

I wasted 17 minutes listening to this pathetic, rambling story when all he need have said is: cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.

[andriuslukas]

wtf this is not cognitive dissonance! hate this misleading video!

[antoineleedolliole]

Yeah, dude, nobody wanted to hear about Michael.

[RealVladPutin]

Who else thought that was Jimmy Kimmel?