Volume 8, April 2015
Hannah Bahnmiller
Pages 71-80
The Intersections between Self-Deception and Inconsistency
An Examination of Bad Faith and Cognitive Dissonance Hannah Bahnmiller
The relationship between the concepts of bad faith, coined by Jean-Paul Sartre, and cognitive dissonance, developed by Leon Festinger, is often misunderstood. Frequently, the terms are over-generalized and equivocated as synonymous ideas. This paper attempts to clarify the intricacies of these two concepts, outlining their similarities and differences.