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

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 ...

If Donald Trump has a natural environment, it is cognitive dissonance. Nowhere was that on display more than the moment in ...

This creates a mental state known as cognitive dissonance, when “an individual’s cognitions — beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors—are at odds” (Egan et al., 2007, p. 978). Cognitive dissonance is an ...

There is a cognitive dissonance within the AAP leadership over the tanker mafia's existence and menace in Delhi which is not ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...

A U.S. president saying that he wants the war over is a big change.

If Donald Trump has a natural environment, it is cognitive dissonance. Nowhere was that on display more than the moment in ...