Cognitive dissonance
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cognitive-dissonance-163-17999384
title:
Cognitive dissonance
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In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when they realize their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory. This may ultimately result in some change in their cognitions or actions to cause greater alignment between them so as to reduce this dissonance. Relevant items of information include peoples' actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as ps
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Stress from contradictory beliefs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
date created:
2003-01-15T09:55:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T15:50:26Z
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