Cognitive dissonance among Filipino law practitioners

• Main Authors: Cataquiz, Abigail S., Marino, Jennifer A, Salvacion, Jennifer G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11654
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examined the cognitive dissonance that occurs when law practitioners must defend an accused or mete out the death penalty for a crime which they consider to be the least grave of the twenty-four heinous crimes punishable by death, and how law practitioners reduce or eliminate the dissonance. Using a Likert-type instrument. fifty forms were distributed to Filipino law practitioners in order to determine which heinous crime was considered by respondents as least grave. From the respondents, the purposive sampling method was then used to select four judges and four lawyers for the in-depth interview. After undergoing content analysis, the results show that Festinger's three modification strategies are used by Filipino law practitioners to reduce dissonance. Uniquely Filipino ways of reducing or eliminating dissonance were also discovered.