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 ...

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 ...

And what can we as counsellors do about this? We can find a possible answer in psychology. A psychologist called Leon Festinger coined the phrase “cognitive dissonance” in the 1950s after observing an ...

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 ...

Columnist Barth Keck highlights the story of Dorothy Martin, who according to early research on cognitive dissonance, ...

Americans must wake up from their complacency to realize strategic reform can only develop through persistent and calculated ...

This creates a mental state known as cognitive dissonance, when “an individual’s cognitions — beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors—are at odds” (Egan et al., 2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an ...

“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris ... Benton’s luminous “Bubbles” (1914-17)—among the few surviving examples from the American Regionalist’s brief flirtation with abstraction.

Significantly, Republicans have offered no specific examples of violent rhetoric from ... of Trump and his supporters reflect a "kind of dissonance between what Trump is saying and what is going ...