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: --
Since the 1950s, a group of psychologists has examined this very constellation, which has been called cognitive dissonance, and which has generated an extensive literature.
The result, in this poor critic's mind, was confusion, difficulty of sympathetic identification with the performers, and cultural cognitive dissonance.
This argument is related to the more familiar theory of cognitive dissonance. 25.
The disparity produces cognitive dissonance, particularly among younger adults who are the most likely to uphold the ideal notions of elder care.
Cognitive dissonance relates to the notion that individuals are uncomfortable if their beliefs are at variance with their behaviour.
To reduce cognitive dissonance individuals revise their beliefs.
Jensen also made specific predictions for worldwide catastrophes, including a specific date in 1980 for the apocalypse, where followers were observed by researchers as a study in 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.
