Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025josh, this is also misleading. they successfully replicated the two central claims of dissonance theory: attitude change, and increased negative affect. the latter is inconsistent with virtually every extant alternative to dissonance theory. 3142 0
Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025the lack of effect of choice is completely consistent with festinger's original theory and some more contemporary versions of dissonance theory, as the authors explicitly say. it is an interesting null result but it is not a troubling one for the core claims of dissonance theory. 1101 0
Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025people who work on cognitive dissonance should be overall very relieved by this replication! so to pair it with some unscientific methods in a narrative book from 70 years ago as an argument that we should be especially suspicious of dissonance theory is extremely misleading 170 0
