Cognitive concepts are not clear, what is the reason

Mr. Wan Weigang's "You Have Your Plan, the World Has Another Plan" The book was finally finished, which lasted three days, multi-concept, physics terms plus statistical graphics is Mr. Wan's usual writing style, the content is difficult, I didn't read it at one time, the book has a total of eight chapters, first.

On the first and second days, I read three chapters a day, and on the third day, I read two chapters, plus organize the nine-square grid note diagram.

I would like to share a concept: cognitive dissonance.

Usually we often hear about endocrine disorders, endocrine disorders refer to the metabolism process involved in the regulation of the human body, abnormal functions or lesions, if people are regarded as a complex system, then endocrine disorders are disorders of the human regulatory system.

Like endocrine disorders, cognitive dissonance is literally understood as a person's cognitive error. The official definition given by the author is that when you find that your behavior does not match your self-image, you will have an illusion to explain your behavior.

There are three elements in this: self-behavior, self-image, and illusion.

What you are doing at the moment is a kind of self-behavior, and then someone will judge you, but you are not satisfied with the evaluation of others, then you will explain the reason for this return, and you are unwilling to admit your mistakes and shortcomings, and find reasons to prove that you are right.

Some time ago, my father-in-law bought a big jar of brown sugar back, I looked at the label and there were 5 kilograms, in my house I and my son Xiao Nanzai rarely eat sugar, I don't like to eat sweets, Xiao Nanzi is only three years old, eating sugar is even more harmless. But Mr. Wen's family likes to eat candy very much, her mother-in-law is almost sixty years old, the family has constant sugar, she has to eat one or two every day, and her teeth are corroded by tooth decay and are about to fall out.

This scenario is typical of cognitive dissonance in life. The old man just doesn't want to admit that his perception is wrong, of course the things he buys with money are the best, if the things he buys back can't even say that he can't say well, then the money will not be wasted.

What are the causes of cognitive dissonance?

1. Logical contradictions.

2. The clash of cultural values.

Third, the old and new experiences are contradictory.

Fourth, the contradiction of concepts.

The sugar eating I just discussed with my family is a conflict of ideas.

To overcome cognitive dissonance, the most important thing is to reduce the cognitive component of incongruity and increase the cognitive component of coordination, and consistency is important.

My cousin-in-law has a history of smoking for more than 30 years, he has a great addiction to smoking, he has to smoke a pack and a half of cigarettes a day, he is relatively thin, and he has a cough at a loss, and his family advises him to quit smoking every year, this persuasion is to persuade him for more than ten years, and he finally quit the year before last, and he has not smoked for three months. Later, I started smoking again, because of a class reunion, everyone smokes and drinks, and others hand you cigarettes, will you not smoke? The moment he took the cigarette, didn't he feel that smoking was bad, but what about the hard work for three months?

Smoking will release the repressed smoking cessation factor in the heart, and it feels a bit against the heart if you don't smoke, so let's still smoke, in terms of stakes, doesn't he know that smoking is harmful? It is also a cognitive dissonance.