r. All of the conditions for the change must be met. The person must be interested in what they are learning, receptive to the topic, and find truth in what they see and hear, or they will not be interested in changing their attitudes and beliefs to fit the newly discovered information. This is true not only of the I-thou relationship with other people, but also with the I-it relationship that people have with their beliefs and understandings about the world and with objects, both animate and inanimate (Biemann, 2002).
             The cognitive dissonance theory, on the other hand, states that people want to be consistent, not just appear to be. Cognitive dissonance, therefore, occurs when one becomes aware of the fact that there are two different cognitions (Utah, 2002). In other words, the person becomes aware that there are inconsistencies, and then has a problem with these because that person does not want to be inconsistent. If there is not enough valid justification for the actions of that person, then tha
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