4."When the pandemic started, a friend of mine got really obsessed with the fact that you can't leave your home or go near people without a mask — but it never reflected in his own actions. He judged ...

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...

Cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict or discomfort that occurs when your behaviors and your beliefs do not align. You can experience cognitive dissonance when what you decide to do contradicts ...

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." –Daniel Kahneman Cognitive dissonance, a psychological phenomenon first identified by Leon Festinger in 1957, refers to the ...

Do you ever get that nagging feeling of discomfort when your beliefs and actions don't quite line up? Like when you swear you ...

COGNITIVE dissonance is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when our actions and our beliefs do not align. It is the mental discomfort we experience when we hold two or more conflicting thoughts, ...

The world far from Hollywood is what made actor Sean Patrick Flanery a success — and he says that’s the world he wants for his family. Flanery, who stars in the new movie “Nefarious,” spoke about the ...

There are only a vanishingly few instances where Big Government advocates are honest about the awful policies upon which they insist. Cigarettes are one such instance. “(R)egulation, which has ...

Recently another poll revealed America’s most known political fact: Liberals are miserable. The samplings change but the conclusions don’t. Yet as confirmed as leftist misery is, its cause is missed: ...

"Cognitive dissonance" is a fascinating term to ponder. My understanding is that it has to do with the distress created when one encounters something that is: 1, undeniable and irrefutably true; 2, ...