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cognitive dissonance
noun
- anxiety or discomfort that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, such as when someone likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of their habits.
cognitive dissonance
noun
- psychol an uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions; usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions
Word History and Origins
Origin of cognitive dissonance1
Example Sentences
There’s an old literature in persuasion science and cognitive dissonance that says if people have made a choice that resulted in a negative consequence, the more negative the consequence, the less likely they are to believe it was a mistake.
Even for those of us who grew up playing video games, surveying the gaming industry today is a case study in cognitive dissonance.
For working parents, such cognitive dissonance is not unique to this year.
Today’s fathers are caught in a classic case of cognitive dissonance.
There was, perhaps, a certain level of cognitive dissonance there, after many years of 5G hype.
A big part of the reason is a simple psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance.
But when the school holds a ceremony honoring the soldiers who killed her Arab brethren, she suffers clear cognitive dissonance.
The European rules create cognitive dissonance: Reality refuses to line up with their convictions.
One astutely muses about cognitive dissonance among the many conservative Republicans within the 47%.
The concept of "pinkwashing," for example, had to be developed to overcome progressive cognitive dissonance.
But the most common reaction is the good old cognitive dissonance.
One of the classic defence mechanisms is the cognitive dissonance.
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