“Psychologists define cognitive dissonance as “The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs or attitudes; especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
There's a momentum to being committed to a group that you think is good, and there's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance… — Sarah Edmondson Copy Share Image
“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
“Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are… — Peter cox Copy Share Image
“I continue to live inside a dichotomy: what was and what shall be. The pain in my skull is me trying to… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
“So why are we unable to acknowledge the truth? Dr. Fung’s answer is simple: we doctors lie to ourselves. If type 2… — Jason Fung Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side… — David Palmer Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The drive to tune out opposing ideas can be explained by psychology's principles of selective exposure theory and confirmation bias, both being… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were… — William James Copy Share Image
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Consider your reaction the first time you sipped a beer or tried spicy food. Was it tasty? Unlikely. Our bodies are designed… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
