0 a state in which there is a difference between your experiences or behaviour and your beliefs about what is true:
1 an uncomfortable feeling that comes from believing or thinking two different things that cannot both be right. This feeling might be caused, for example, when someone wants to or has to do something that they believe to be wrong:
However, it is likely that cognitive dissonance of the kind described above (not 'irrationality') means that individuals play down the future.
Festingers other well-known theory of cognitive dissonance, proposed in 1957 offers further evidence for why such a process might occur.
Wilson then goes on to tell the stories of a few people who were unable to successfully silence the yelps of their own cognitive dissonance.
Festinger described the basic hypotheses of cognitive dissonance as follows:: 1.
Li is aware of the jarring and psychological effect his paintings can have, explaining that there's a little cognitive dissonance going on.
Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance can account for the psychological consequences of disconfirmed expectations.
Endino described the atmosphere of the session as quite negative and that it was really strange, cognitive dissonance.
Hughes writes that she began to feel emotional and cognitive dissonance between her scientific studies and the feminist activist work she was doing.
