The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

Missing the gorilla in the room? This eye-opening article teaches how cognitive blind spots prevent us from truly knowing ...

How cognitive dissonance affects us: This experiment revealed a crucial point: when our actions contradict our beliefs, we ...

The motivational mechanism that underlies the reluctance to be wrong, change our minds, admit serious mistakes or accept unwelcome information is called cognitive dissonance. The theory was developed ...

2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable state, so people try to resolve it by changing one of the two dissonant elements (Festinger, 1962). An experiment by Egan et al. (2007) found ...

Sometimes, the ways that people resolve cognitive dissonance contribute to unhealthy behaviors or poor decisions. In "A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance," Leon Festinger (the psychologist who first ...

The Greek concept of hubris—the excessive pride that leads to downfall—perfectly encapsulates the Awami League's attitude.

The samplings change but the conclusions don’t. Yet as confirmed as leftist misery is, its cause is missed: cognitive dissonance. The latest polling by the Institute for Family Studies found ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...