Describe a workplace example of how people seek consistency among their attitudes and their behavior by reducing cognitive dissonance. Then, sort your example into the three main components of attitudes.

 

The cognitive dissonance theory marks the incompatibility between the attitude and actions of a person. A individual is motivated and actively trying to prevent dissonance or inconsistency, as it is an awkward state of affairs. Consistency is achieved either by altering or shifting the attitude or by manipulating the repertoire of actions

Step-by-step explanation

For example, In order to accompany his boss, an employee smokes and smoking is dangerous to one's health. The issue here is that the employee who thinks smoking is dangerous follows his employer to smoke. Therefore it represents a dissonance between his conduct and faith.

Thus the dissonance can be avoided by either decreasing his concentration on the detrimental effects of smoking and how one or two cigarettes a day is not that bad or denying the request of his boss to smoke. The three main components of an attitude are power / emotion, action and intelligence. Therefore in the aforementioned example, the employee's attitude towards smoking can be split into affective components (he does not want to smoke), cognitive components (he feels smoking is hazardous to one's health) and behavioral components (he tries to stop smoking).