Psych 20 - Today we talked about cognitive dissonance and watched a short clip from a Leon Festinger experiment that was narrated by Philip Zimbardo. We did a little thought experiment where you imagined that you found out that your father was committing credit card fraud in order to buy jewellery for your mom, but that she was so happy when she got the jewellery. We looked at the four ways in which we try to alleviate cognitive dissonance and tried to apply those techniques to new scenarios.

We also talked about stress reducing methods and watched a video called XS Stress: Teens Take Control while you coloured in on your stress-relieving colouring page.