Final Proposal project

Social psychology

Jornique Jones

Delgado Community College

September 10, 2017

Fall 2017

Proposal

Social psychology

The project entails how people tend to have different attitudes when under different environments. It is true that people do not seem to have the same attitude towards conducting various activities. In other words, there are situations where people will portray positive attitudes while at other situations they will tend to portray negative attitude (Chadee, 2011). It depends on whether one likes and enjoys doing something including cases where the results of the assignments at hand will result in success. Also, individuals’ personalities tend to impact their attitude towards different issues. Also, it requires one to convince people to do something suggesting that it is through one’s convincing power that can impact another person’s attitude.

Cognitive dissonance is an area of social psychology that explains the situations by which people tend to have different beliefs and thoughts inconsistently (Kruglanski, & Higgins, 2007). Most of the thoughts and beliefs lead to the behavior differences related to making choices and the continuous change of attitude from time to time. Cognitive dissonance is all about an individual being mentally uncomfortable suggesting that the individual has to bear with stress for a long time. The main problems resulting in the stress is related to the fact that people have aspects of the dilemma when faced with ideas and beliefs that are related. Therefore, it becomes difficult for one to decide on what is the best thing for him to do and that will not negatively affect other people and himself. However, people are always trying their best to deal with their inconsistencies in mind that they will improve their living standards and live a comfortable life. Therefore, it is essential that people research more about their actions and any outcomes that are bound to occur before they decide on what to accomplish at that specific time.

References

Chadee, D. (2011). Theories in Social Psychology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Kruglanski, A. & Higgins, E. (2007). Social psychology : handbook of basic principles. New York: Guilford Press.