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SuperPulb wrote:Go Pack Go !

Huh???

duck wrote:

SuperPulb wrote:Go Pack Go !

Huh???

Oh, come on, Doctor. Think back to your schooling--specifically Festinger... The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements. Sound familiar? Is this not clearly a case where the disorder subject--having suffered years of disappointment, anguish and abuse as a Lions fan, has defaulted to creating a parallel reality--one that fosters an ongoing positive reaffirmation of his identity through a primary association with an image, such as the Green Bay Packers, that engenders success--thereby leaving behind the former dissonant anguish from the associative cognitions surrounding inferiority and failure related to the Detroit Lions? Have you been keeping up on your CME's for fuck's sake!!

I'm tellin' ya...we're going to have to cut you and Jan out of the faculty deviant swap nights if this shit continues...

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_HD_ wrote:

duck wrote:

SuperPulb wrote:Go Pack Go !

Huh???

Oh, come on, Doctor. Think back to your schooling--specifically Festinger... The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements. Sound familiar? Is this not clearly a case where the disorder subject--having suffered years of disappointment, anguish and abuse as a Lions fan, has defaulted to creating a parallel reality--one that fosters an ongoing positive reaffirmation of his identity through a primary association with an image, such as the Green Bay Packers, that engenders success--thereby leaving behind the former dissonant anguish from the associative cognitions surrounding inferiority and failure related to the Detroit Lions? Have you been keeping up on your CME's for fuck's sake!!

I'm tellin' ya...we're going to have to cut you and Jan out of the faculty deviant swap nights if this shit continues...

Your diagnosis is sound, Doctor. The patient is clearly manifesting cognitive dissonance.

However I believe there is also another psychological mechanism in play: the Stockholm Syndrome. Our poor Lions fan has been so mistreated and abused on this board, he is now beginning to identify with his tormentors.

I propose that we continue monitoring our patient but be prepared to initiate a series of shock treatments should his condition morph into something more serious. At this point his altered mental state is superior to his baseline settings.