Cognitive Dissonance Quotes
Cognitive Dissonance Quote of the day
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.
I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.
One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.