Editing Cognitive dissonance (section)

=== Emotional correlations ===
The results reported in ''Contributions from Research on Anger and Cognitive Dissonance to Understanding the Motivational Functions of Asymmetrical Frontal Brain Activity''<ref name=Harmon-Jones2004>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harmon-Jones E | title = Contributions from research on anger and cognitive dissonance to understanding the motivational functions of asymmetrical frontal brain activity | journal = Biological Psychology | volume = 67 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 51–76 | date = October 2004 | pmid = 15130525 | doi = 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.03.003 | s2cid = 8137723 }}</ref> (Harmon-Jones, 2004) indicate that the occurrence of cognitive dissonance is associated with neural activity in the [[Frontal cortex|left frontal cortex]], a brain structure also associated with the [[emotion]] of [[anger]]; moreover, functionally, anger motivates neural activity in the left frontal cortex.<ref name="Harmon-Jones, E. 1999. pp. 71"/><ref name="Harmon-Jones 2002"/> Applying a directional model of [[Motivation|Approach motivation]], the study ''Anger and the Behavioural Approach System'' (2003) indicated that the relationship between cognitive dissonance and anger is supported by neural activity in the left frontal cortex that occurs when a person takes control of the social situation causing the cognitive dissonance. Conversely, if the person cannot control or cannot change the psychologically stressful stimulation, they are without a motivation to change the circumstance, then there arise other, [[Negative affectivity|negative emotions]] to manage the cognitive dissonance, such as socially inappropriate behavior.<ref name="Harmon-Jones, E. 1999. pp. 71"/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harmon-Jones E | year = 2003 | title = Anger and the Behavioural Approach System | journal = Personality and Individual Differences | volume = 35 | issue = 5| pages = 995–1005 | doi=10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00313-6}}</ref><ref name=Harmon-Jones2004/>

The [[anterior cingulate cortex]] activity increases when errors occur and are being monitored as well as having behavioral conflicts with the [[self-concept]] as a form of higher-level thinking.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal | vauthors = Amodio DM, Harmon-Jones E, Devine PG, Curtin JJ, Hartley SL, Covert AE | title = Neural signals for the detection of unintentional race bias | journal = Psychological Science | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | pages = 88–93 | date = February 2004 | pmid = 14738514 | doi = 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.01502003.x | s2cid = 18302240 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.475.7527 }}</ref> A study was done to test the prediction that the left frontal cortex would have increased activity. University students had to write a paper depending on if they were assigned to a high-choice or low-choice condition. The low-choice condition required students to write about supporting a 10% increase in tuition at their university. The point of this condition was to see how significant the counter-choice may affect a person's ability to [[Coping|cope]].{{clarify|date=June 2023}} The high-choice condition asked students to write in favor of tuition increase as if it were their completely voluntary choice. The researchers use [[EEG]] to analyze students before they wrote the essay, as dissonance is at its highest during this time (Beauvois and Joule, 1996). High-choice condition participants showed a higher level of the left frontal cortex than the low-choice participants. Results show that the initial experience of dissonance can be apparent in the anterior cingulate cortex, then the left frontal cortex is activated, which also activates the approach motivational system to reduce anger.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>Beauvois, J. L., Joule, R. V., 1996. A radical dissonance theory. London: Taylor and Francis.{{page needed|date=November 2021}}</ref>