Cognitive dissonance Quote by Rupert Sheldrake Download Open image ““cognitive dissonance is”” — Rupert Sheldrake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cognitive dissonance
“Did you ever hear of cognitive dissonance?” she asked. “No.” “Basically, it’s a theory that people subconsciously reinterpret their motives and actions in a… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach 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 increase the… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. — William Carlos Williams 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 of it… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
“It is. It’s a psychological phenomenon common in governments, business organizations, and political parties; a culture of conformity that discourages independent thinking and disagreement.… — James N. Cook Copy Share Image
“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“...the result of an estimated 86.5% of 20C dates was a state of severe emotional dissonance between the date's participants, a dissonance attributed by… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are things to be cherished but we cannot be intolerant of others whose beliefs we disagree with. That intolerance can lead to war… — Peter Tremayne Copy Share Image
“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“The commonest kinds of seemingly telepathic response are the anticipation by dogs and cats of their owners coming home; the anticipation of owners going… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means...… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“Reality Check His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea… — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust the science behind the vegetarian movement because the believers have agendas beyond nutrition. Some vegetarians are in the lifestyle to protect… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings,… — George f. Will Copy Share Image
“The more effort we put into something, the more likely we are to value it. We are more likely to be consistent with our… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When a person believes one thing but chooses or is forced to advocate its opposite, the result is cognitive dissonance. Eventually, in order to… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
