Living a life by principles that conflict with your religious / moral ones is
called Cognitive Dissonance.
Most atheists are ignorant of this or ignore it...
call it cognitive dissonance, if you like.
Or does postliberal theology invite us to lead lives of what, for decades, was
called cognitive dissonance?
Someone not schooled in the Alice in Wonderland nature of New York politics might, in the era of Black Lives Matter and democratic socialism,
call this cognitive dissonance.
In Psychology,
we call that cognitive dissonance.
Not exact matches
The challenge is
called «
cognitive dissonance» and causes severe psychic pain thus to avoid it, they threaten non believers politically, socially, legally and physcially if necessary.
Religious differences are the most profound differences that humans can have... someone earlier in this thread mentioned «
cognitive dissonance» well there is another concept
called «
cognitive interference» coined by Robert Anton Wilson.
It's
called «
cognitive dissonance», which is a well - known phenomenon.
Festinger
called his book A Theory of
Cognitive Dissonance.
They must have suffered very much from what modem psychologists
call «
cognitive dissonance» — the painful disagreement between what we believe and what others maintain with assurance.
If you
call yourself a progressive Democrat and endorse the idea of an empowered IDC, you are guilty of
cognitive dissonance (at best) or pernicious self - interest (at worst).
I don't know how the board plans to resolve that
cognitive dissonance but I wouldn't
call you an apologist if you acknowledged the board's dilemma.
The history of our country is filled with examples of
cognitive dissonance created by people who question the so -
called «conventional wisdom.»
But because we have no conclusive proof that the Minister of Justice does in fact understand reality, we can only say with certainty that this facet of the so -
called «tough - on - crime» agenda is based on «
cognitive dissonance».