cognitive dissonance
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.
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How to use cognitive dissonance in a sentence
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.
Gaming Advertising Forum Recap: Rapidly growing sector’s massive platforms and user diversity underestimated | jim cooper | April 20, 2021 | DigidayFor working parents, such cognitive dissonance is not unique to this year.
These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They're Suing After Being Fired | Eliana Dockterman | March 3, 2021 | TimeToday’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.
Netanyahu & Co. Erase Israel's Economic Horizon | Gershom Gorenberg | August 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne 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.
After the Rain | Sam VakninOne of the classic defence mechanisms is the cognitive dissonance.
After the Rain | Sam Vaknin
British Dictionary definitions for cognitive dissonance
psychol an uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions; usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions
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