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Hypocrisy-Induced Dissonance


             As aforementioned, the hypocrisy paradigm can be applied to one's everyday life in practical ways. It allows room for one to commit the mistakes that go against their own beliefs or say things that go against their own actions. It also allows room for the individual to learn and not be so quick to judge others actions. A practical example of hypocrisy could be having road rage when cut off on the highway and out of anger the driver cuts off his or hers fellow driver. A study conducted by Takaku (2006) further studied this example of road rage and inducing hypocrisy. Often times, the one who is on the receiving end of an offense (the person being cut off) would like that the person who committed the offense (the person who cuts off a driver) be punished. The goal of inducing hypocrisy is to have the victim take on their wrongdoers' perspective by making the victim aware of their own similar wrongdoings that they committed in the past. It is not enough to have the victim merely "step inside the other person's shoes." They will more than likely have to be reminded that they are also offenders. .
             In regards to Takaku's study of inducing hypocrisy in those with road rage, he conducted his study by using a total of 97 college students. The participants were required to participate in this study in order to fulfill a course requirement. For this study, half of the participants through random assignment were placed in the experimental condition. Those in the experimental condition were the participants who cut off someone before being cut off him or herself by a reckless driver. The remaining participants were placed in the control condition. These participants do not cut off anyone and are later cut off by a reckless driver. The independent variable being manipulated was the presence or the absence of a car horn from behind the driver to induce or to not induce hypocrisy dissonance.


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