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Today we examine cognitive , the discomfort people feel when their actions contradict their beliefs. Festinger proposed that individuals reduce this tension by adjusting rather than behavior, since behavior is often harder to reverse. This explains why smokers sometimes downplay health instead of quitting, preserving a consistent self-.