xe Background As Prof Collins explains in the attached excerpt from his book, un

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xe Background As Prof Collins explains in the attached excerpt from his book, under Kohlberg's theory of the six stages, everyone enters the various stages sequentially- in other words, nobody skips any stage. Nevertheless, Kohlberg also believed that this staged progression was not natural/automatic. Instead, Kohlberg thought that movement from one stage to the next occurs when cognitive dissonance occurs. Here is a dictionary definition of cognitive dissonance:"A psychological condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beli action, such as opposing animal slaughter but eating meat." As respects moral reasoning Kohlberg thought people respond to this moral discomfort by reasoning at the next higher stage of moral development. According to Kohlberg, an individual cannot comprehend moral reasoning more than one stage ahead of his/her own. ef and Question Conceming your moral reasoning, did you ever experience cognitive dissonance? If so, did you react to it by reasoning at the next higher stage of moral development? Please explain what happened.

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1. Yes. There are instances when one experiences conflicts between the actions and beliefs. I experienced cognitive dissonance while working part time for a media organisation in Asia, when I realised that the lavish parties thrown every weekend were funded by bribes which my bosses collected from the local merchants for not writing about their human rights violations of employees which also included engagement of child labour. I loved the parties which offered a great way of socialising and building interpersonal relationships, but did not like their source. On taking this reasoning to the next level, I decided not to make merry at the cost of exploitation of some people. I quit the organisation within few months.

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