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I was today years old when I learned that the scholar who defined the term “cognitive dissonance” did so after successfully predicting that many members of a doomsday cult would double down on their beliefs after a predicted apocalypse failed to occur.
He theorized that those who have not made a strong commitment to the prophecy with quietly lose their face, well, those that I’m giving away all their possessions would double down on the belief, no matter what.
Festinger’s hypothesis would be named cognitive dissonance, and flew in the faith of what of every existing theory of motivation and human behavior.
Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful humans out there working hard to be equal parents.
Today, I’ll tell you about how I had to train my husband to be a parent, because society never did.
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Today, I’ll tell you about how I had to train my husband to be a parent, because society never did.
Welcome to Coffee and Culture, a 🧵
I met my husband in Afghanistan, (I know, I know, war is not a time for ‘Deployment Boos’, we were told), and we were immediately a great team from the start—which was good, because we went through the ringer to have our relationship.
From the moment he met me, he used group language like ‘we’ and talked about the future—he had none of those hangups, so common amongst today’s men, that we call fear of commitment.
