Sentences with phrase «cognitive dissonance about»
The only other parting shot I could get in was that I've found that people with children are less likely to believe in GW, than people without children, because GW is such a horrible problem to contemplate for future generations that there's a huge cognitive dissonance about it (I haven't done a study, it's only my sense of things); the man has three small children.
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Maybe the most striking element of the speech was Duncan's cognitive dissonance about NCLB.
I still have cognitive dissonance about Robbie playing Tonya Harding, but the project is shaping up well.
«I think [ADP has] always had a bit of cognitive dissonance about Zenefits.
Not exact matches
What I meant by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual believers into some sort of barrel.
These are very tho - rny issues we're talking about — a tangled mess of bad intentions, good intentions, misapplied intentions, and the whole range of psychological variations of mental illness, cognitive dissonance, and a bunch of other things not really complimentary to religions in general and to specific religions as well.
When it comes to feelings about the Bible and actually reading and applying its teachings, there is a major cognitive dissonance in the modern Church.
Some people can apparently live quite contentedly with the most severe cognitive dissonance simply by not thinking about it.
Religion is really about psychology, trying to keep cognitive dissonances at bay, ambiguity (in) tolerance, and the need for cognitive closure.
Commentary since September 11 has produced a cognitive dissonance among Americans about Islam, the world's second largest religious tradition.
«The Cognitive Dissonance» comment was in reference to your comment about the inappropriateness of islamic schools vrs.
It's the level of cognitive dissonance within religious communities about other communities that confuses those of us who think all of them are a bit strange.
I think Amy's assertion about land mammals is intended to demonstrate the cognitive dissonance suffered by some natural birth advocates that promote water birth, not as an argument that we should eschew it and follow nature.
Wonder what Rush will have to say about this one... Operation Chaos is over, Operation Cognitive Dissonance has begun.
It takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to set a film about music in Woodstock while having the protagonist sing Pat Benatar karaoke.
«If the information they've learned contradicts their original ideas about why the seasons change, that cognitive dissonance will hopefully help them to modify or change their ideas to more closely match the scientific explanation.»
* The Leon Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Award has co-winners — AFL - CIO president Richard Trumka for «I wish it was about collective bargaining.
Some have issues with cognitive dissonance but overall I've learned a lot about teacher's viewpoints on independent reading.
If the short definition of cognitive dissonance is holding two contradictory ideas to be true, ebooks are about as dissonant as digital content gets.
Ryan Gander, Your cognitive Dissonance, 2014, A painting about Rembrandt detail of painting, 55 x 43 cm, Courtesy of the artist and gb agency, Paris
Other expressions of scepticism may result from issue fatigue, cynicism about a media who seek to sensationalise or the experience of cognitive dissonance.
I know from experience (witnessed) what cognitive dissonance can do to a person's sanity... one has to wonder about folks like this though, how do they sleep?
Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.
Closely linked to this question of base year selection for the treaty is a sort of cognitive dissonance that is occurring in reports about compliance of the signatories with the treaty.
Talk about Cognitive Dissonance!
The cognitive dissonance around cars is a great ally of terrorists, sowing doubt about responsibility.
In another work, she draws lessons from cognitive science, and particularly the process of cognitive dissonance, to help advise lawyers about the tone they might wish to adopt in their advocacy — in other words, how hard they might want to push a position.
So maybe it's about insecurity, and maybe some cognitive dissonance riding underneath that layer of skepticism.
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As we both know, this cognitive dissonance scenario plays all of the time with big - time commission chasers who tend to try to live up to the standards of what one wants to earn vs what one is currently earning, and therein lies the problem with almost all wannabes, early know - nothing - careerists, struggling know - a-little-bit mid-term survivors, surviving devolving - from - naïve - honest - wannabes - to - practicing - the - sales - culture's ways - and - means - influence - peddling scripts / strategies wannabe - professionals - but - still - amateurs producers to the flat out high - flying Terry Paranych types who practice (pre Hearing decisions) in - your - face unethical behaviours in quest of more and more and more and more commissions before death brings down the final curtain on the greatest act one has ever been privy to partaking in... because for most, being a Realtor is all about acting.