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Elanso [62]
3 years ago
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In 1997, a few members of Heaven's Gate, a religious cult, bought a telescope to view a comet. They returned the telescope a few

days later and said that it was faulty because there was no spaceship behind the comet. This action:
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1 answer:
nignag [31]3 years ago
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Answer:

This action appears to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance because there is an expression of bias for the belief that the telescope should have showed a spaceship.

Explanation:

As this is also conflicting with the original intent behind the purchase of the telescope which was to simply view a comet, it expresses a contradiction in belief of the purchasers which signals this action to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance.

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