By bringing attention to the inconsistencies in our minds, cognitive dissonance may present an opportunity for growth. People who feel it could realize, for example, that they need to update their ...

Columnist Barth Keck highlights the story of Dorothy Martin, who according to early research on cognitive dissonance, ...

(Another classic example of cognitive dissonance is smoking. When a smoker encounters evidence that smoking is bad for his health but still is driven to keep smoking, what does he do?) Actions ...

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 ...

The easier option, as cognitive dissonance theory suggests, is to alter the narrative. Political history is rife with examples of leaders who refused to accept responsibility for their downfall.

By bringing attention to the inconsistencies in our minds, cognitive dissonance may present an opportunity for growth. People who feel it could realize, for example, that they need to update their ...

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 ...