Interestingly enough, Leon Festinger first developed the theory of cognitive dissonance after looking at the behavior of doomsday cults. His book, When Prophecy Fails is fascinating: it looks at a doomsday cult in the 50s that believed aliens were going to rescue the cult from the world's…
那本书是 Leon Festinger 写的《当预言落空》（When Prophecy Fails）[1]。如果我没记错的话，他是认知失调理论的先驱之一。[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
The book was When Prophecy Fails [1] by Leon Festinger who, if memory serves, was one of the pioneers in the theory of cognitive dissonance. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
……早上了，我从周五到现在都还没合眼。其实从我主观感觉来说，现在依然是“周五晚上”，毕竟我还没睡过觉呢。过去几个小时我一直在读 Leon Festinger 的《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance），然后看了这个视频“推论：逻辑哲学的视角，与 Alexander Paseau 一起探讨”[1]。我大概再过一小时就去睡觉，然后睡到下午1点左右……
…morning, and I still haven't been to bed from Friday. In fact, from my subjective point of view it's still "Friday night" since I haven't slept yet. For the past couple of hours I've been reading in A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger, and then watching this video "Inference: A Logical-Philosophical Perspective with Alexander Paseau"[1]. I'll hit the hay in another hour or so, then sleep till around 1:00 PM or so…
In When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world.[1] A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become…
那天我翻了一大堆不同的书，琢磨着接下来这一阵子该怎么规划。在这些书里，我最后读完了《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance）和那本讲感觉与知觉的书。书名就叫《记忆》（Memory）的那本我也啃下去了大半本。剩下的就只能稍微往后排一排了。我现在有点想重新回到那种……的状态。
On that particular day I was going through a bunch of different books, trying to work out what my plan was going to be for the next little while. Of those ones, I wound up finishing A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance and the Sensation and Perception one. I also knocked out a pretty good chunk of the one titled just Memory. The rest got bumped down the stack a bit. I kinda getting back to the place now where I want…
……那个“传感器盒子”的物理装置和配套软件，我回头去读了很多形而上学和认识论方面的书。我也刚读完了 Leon Festinger[2] 的《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance），越来越确信认知失调是学习机制中非常重要的一环。我脑子里总挥之不去一个念头：认知失调和“信念……之间有着至关重要的联系。
…physical apparatus and associated software for the "box of sensors" thing, I've been going back and doing a lot of reading on metaphysics and epistemology. I also just read Leon Festinger's[2] book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, and am increasingly convinced that cognitive dissonance is an important part of how learning works. I can't shake the idea that there's a crucial connection between cognitive dissonance and "belief…
挺有意思的是，Leon Festinger 最初是在观察了末日邪教的行为之后，才提出了认知失调理论。他的书《当预言落空》（When Prophecy Fails）非常引人入胜：书中研究了50年代的一个末日教派，他们坚信外星人会把他们从世界的……中拯救出来。
Interestingly enough, Leon Festinger first developed the theory of cognitive dissonance after looking at the behavior of doomsday cults. His book, When Prophecy Fails is fascinating: it looks at a doomsday cult in the 50s that believed aliens were going to rescue the cult from the world's…
那本书是 Leon Festinger 写的《当预言落空》（When Prophecy Fails）[1]。如果我没记错的话，他是认知失调理论的先驱之一。[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
The book was When Prophecy Fails [1] by Leon Festinger who, if memory serves, was one of the pioneers in the theory of cognitive dissonance. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails
……早上了，我从周五到现在都还没合眼。其实从我主观感觉来说，现在依然是“周五晚上”，毕竟我还没睡过觉呢。过去几个小时我一直在读 Leon Festinger 的《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance），然后看了这个视频“推论：逻辑哲学的视角，与 Alexander Paseau 一起探讨”[1]。我大概再过一小时就去睡觉，然后睡到下午1点左右……
…morning, and I still haven't been to bed from Friday. In fact, from my subjective point of view it's still "Friday night" since I haven't slept yet. For the past couple of hours I've been reading in A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger, and then watching this video "Inference: A Logical-Philosophical Perspective with Alexander Paseau"[1]. I'll hit the hay in another hour or so, then sleep till around 1:00 PM or so…
在《当预言落空：对一个预测世界末日的现代群体的社会心理学研究》（1956）和《认知失调理论》（1957）中，Leon Festinger 提出，人类为了在现实世界中保持正常的心理机能，会极力追求内心的心理一致性。[1] 经历内心不一致的人往往会变得……
In When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world.[1] A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become…
那天我翻了一大堆不同的书，琢磨着接下来这一阵子该怎么规划。在这些书里，我最后读完了《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance）和那本讲感觉与知觉的书。书名就叫《记忆》（Memory）的那本我也啃下去了大半本。剩下的就只能稍微往后排一排了。我现在有点想重新回到那种……的状态。
On that particular day I was going through a bunch of different books, trying to work out what my plan was going to be for the next little while. Of those ones, I wound up finishing A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance and the Sensation and Perception one. I also knocked out a pretty good chunk of the one titled just Memory. The rest got bumped down the stack a bit. I kinda getting back to the place now where I want…
……那个“传感器盒子”的物理装置和配套软件，我回头去读了很多形而上学和认识论方面的书。我也刚读完了 Leon Festinger[2] 的《认知失调理论》（A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance），越来越确信认知失调是学习机制中非常重要的一环。我脑子里总挥之不去一个念头：认知失调和“信念……之间有着至关重要的联系。
…physical apparatus and associated software for the "box of sensors" thing, I've been going back and doing a lot of reading on metaphysics and epistemology. I also just read Leon Festinger's[2] book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, and am increasingly convinced that cognitive dissonance is an important part of how learning works. I can't shake the idea that there's a crucial connection between cognitive dissonance and "belief…