cognitive dissonance

If this sounds like a good recipe for cognitive dissonance (if not indigestion), that was sort of the idea.

The very act of awarding prizes seems to throw Tinseltown into a state of cognitive dissonance.

For an example, have a look at my report of this classic study of cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive Dissonance Any incompatibility between two or more attitudes or between behavior and attitudes.

A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others. It can distort your own values, too, through cognitive dissonance.

This technique revolves around the theory of cognitive dissonance. This is a large concept, so allow me to butcher it into two paragraphs.

Empirically speaking, this slow erosion of cognitive dissonance takes approximately two years to complete.

However as in cognitive dissonance they tend to ignore all the warning signs that they would normally associate with other relationships.

Cognitive dissonance is also applied to a perceived incongruity between a person's attitudes and his behaviour.

Being aware of this can help us avoid falling foul of the most dangerous consequences of cognitive dissonance : believing our own lies .

However, we'd wonder if a button would create cognitive dissonance if it appeared without corresponding fields.

It's a role he relishes, particularly for the cognitive dissonance it serves up: A Republican Deadhead?

What you've just experienced is the power of cognitive dissonance.

If ethical commitments vary among subsidiaries, these assets will be diluted due to the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance.

My favourite explanation, though, is to do with cognitive dissonance.

I mean it's the greatest thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is the fact that I am in really good shape.

The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Individuals will seek a stable state in which there is a minimum of dissonance.

Whether that's true or not, that's cognitive dissonance in action.

The Self and Others. Self-Deception, Self-Presentation, Cognitive Dissonance.

And that ought to result in some uncomfortable cognitive dissonance.

The question becomes how well you can manage this cognitive dissonance.

Can you define "cognitive dissonance" or "heuristic" ?

Since this experiment numerous studies of cognitive dissonance have been carried out and the effect is well-established.

To them, Mr. Obama's rise triggers severe cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance: this describes the act of holding two conflicting beliefs at the same time.

Well, that's a laboratory effect but there are some more interesting manifestations of cognitive dissonance.

The relationships between college students'attributional style, cognitive dissonance, personality and depression

Social Psychology's Analysis about Undergraduates with Learning Difficulties--Based on the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Discussion on cause and pathogenesis of vascular cognitive dissonance

FAILURE TO PROMPTLY RESOLVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

A theory of cognitive dissonance

How and Why We Lie to Ourselves: Cognitive Dissonance