Shawna is on a diet and doing very well,losing about ten pounds in the weeks before Thanksgiving.She believes that six small meals is a healthy way to eat.When she sits down at her grandmother's Thanksgiving dinner,she cannot help herself and has second helpings of just about everything,including the pumpkin pie.She realizes that no one forced her to eat as much as she did.She therefore is likely to experience:

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Shawna's behavior of overeating at Thanksgiving dinner goes against her belief that six small meals is a healthy way to eat. This inconsistency between her belief and behavior is likely to result in dissonance, which is a state of psychological discomfort that occurs when there is a discrepancy between attitudes and behaviors.

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