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Elaine Nassar PSY-491: Module Three Journal 3-2 Module Three Journal November 10 th , 2023

 Describe the personal factors that guide your ethical decision making when choosing to support (or not support) a specific cause. Some personal factors that guide my decision making when choosing whether to support a cause include whether the beliefs of the social change align with my own personal beliefs. For example, I do understand others believes in pro-life, but my own personal beliefs are that women should have their own chose on whether they can have abortion or not so it’s very unlikely for me to support a cause that strictly prohibits individuals from making their own decisions about their body. Another personal factor that guides my ethical decision making would be experiences of my own in life. An example of this would be a cause supporting or not supporting gay and transgender rights. I personally identify as lesbian and have experienced the discrimination and injustice that comes along with it in the past and currently. This and other factors such as age, gender, what experiences whether good or bad directly affect whether I support the social change or not.  Describe the social factors that guide your ethical decision making when choosing to support (or not support) a specific cause. The social factors that guide my ethical decision making to support or not support a specific cause would be my beliefs and values and those of the people I love and care about. If I support a cause, it can’t go against my own beliefs and those who I care about the most because I would not be able to justify why I support it and what benefits or injustices myself and circle experience from the social change.

Another social factor that that would guide my stance and support would be what individuals or group/organization are guiding the cause. Based on the organization, I would take into consideration a variety of factors that include how long the organization as been running, their political beliefs, what the goals of the organization are and the resources they would use. I would also be interested in looking at their past causes and what the specifics and goals they had and how the cause ended or started.  Describe one way that you can decrease cognitive dissonance in order to realign your ideals and actions. Cognitive dissonance is a conflict in your mind that occurs when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. (Tzeses, 2020) One way that you can decrease this dilemma to algin your ideals and actions on whether to support or not support could be to challenge your current beliefs. It is hard to admit why you believe a certain belief, especially if it was based on your upbringing. You must figure out what it is that you don’t support and think about why you don’t support it. If growing up, your parents told you to believe or not believe something about a specific cause or view on individuals, you usually hold those beliefs in your childhood because of the influence your parents have. As you grow older, those beliefs stick sometimes but when asked why, some individuals can not explain why. This is true with things such as politics, religion, race and whether they support certain individual’s lifestyles. As an adult and when considering causes, you must self-reflect on whether this is something you as a person believe or if you only believed this because of what others were telling you. If you yourself don’t support it, then that’s when you can honestly say it’s not aligning with your values and beliefs.

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 Describe one way that you can increase cognitive consonance in order to realign your ideals and actions. Cognitive consonance is a situation in which two cognitive elements are consistent with one another, when on cognitive element follows from or is implied by the other. (APA, 2023) An example of this would be if someone says they love hanging out with someone, and when they are with that said person, they obviously show signs of enjoying time with this person and witness genuine happiness. Your thoughts and actions are in harmony. One way to increase this is the obvious answer of recognizing what you are actively doing and acting out and aligning that to your beliefs. If you see something you don’t believe, you must stand on your own beliefs if that’s what you truly believe.

Resources American Psychological Association (n.d.). Apa Dictionary of Psychology. American Psychological Association. https://dictionary.apa.org/cognitive-consonance Tzeses, J. (2020, November 30). Cognitive dissonance: What it is & Why it Matters – Psycom. Psycom. https://www.psycom.net/cognitive-dissonance

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