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

It happens to the best of us, but there's actually a name for that discomfort you're experiencing: cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that results from holding two ...

Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

In the world of storytelling, whether in film, literature, or any narrative art, cognitive dissonance is a powerful tool.

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Now that the whole world knows that the president of the United States is a Russian patsy, I don't have to be gaslit about being a crackpot fake news conspiracy theorist for knowing that fact all ...

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 ...