No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes ...

Cognitive dissonance is linked to a person’s psychology and affects not just his/her behaviour and actions but decisions too that can prove to define the future and course of that person’s life.

There are times when we know a behavior is risky or unsafe but we rationalize that it’s still the right thing to do. In the fire service, this “cognitive dissonance” can have fatal implications.

“Cognitive dissonance” is the term that the psychologist Leon Festinger used to refer to the inconsistency between our behavior and our beliefs. For example, suppose an individual believes ...

Cognitive dissonance has entered the vernacular as shorthand for what people experience when they hold two contradictory opinions at once. But, within psychology, it describes a somewhat distinct ...

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance takes place about fifty years after the original Castlevania, with players assuming the role of Simon Belmont's grandson, Juste. This guy, looking like a refugee ...

Certainly, this cognitive dissonance when combined with technological innovation will lead to substitutes that will provide an anodyne for customers’ conscience, but unless these alternatives ...

Dissonance, we saw, was a harshness or complexity, resulting from the carrying out of melodic purposes, which in turn actually stimulated and vitalized those purposes.

I don’t see why those things ought to be seen as mutually exclusive or the source of any “cognitive dissonance,” as you put it.