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 one ...

Our desire to be fair, avoid cognitive dissonance and maintain group harmony can reinforce systems of inequality — even ...

Do you keep second-guessing your decisions after you’ve made them? Immobilizing yourself? Berating yourself when you finally decide on something? This can be a normal albeit painful way to make ...

Cognitive dissonance, or having conflicting attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, is affecting how people respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent article for The Atlantic, social scientists Elliot ...

Cognitive dissonance is what happens when a person holds two sets of beliefs at odds with each other. The human brain doesn’t like logical inconsistencies, so someone experiencing cognitive dissonance ...

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Do you ever get that nagging feeling of discomfort when your beliefs and actions don't quite line up? Like when you swear you ...

It increasingly appears to be the case that some MAGA Republicans desire to replace American democracy with autocracy. President Joe Biden’s “Soul of America” speech forcefully called them out. Those ...