Sentences with phrase «cognitive dissonance among»

Instead, cognitive dissonance among school choice opponents leads them to dismiss a solid study.

Commentary since September 11 has produced a cognitive dissonance among Americans about Islam, the world's second largest religious tradition.

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There's also the ongoing pattern in people's individual issues relating to Cognitive Dissonance and Bias, and the Dunning - Kruger Effect (non-experts in fields and those Pseudo-Experts those with no real life experience in real world applications) that are very much at play among a very small but vocal contingent of participants on RC.

Perhaps the «cognitive dissonance» will be among the skeptics who read these two items.

■ We see the failure of academia and note its precipitous decline in a sense of truthfulness among AGW scientists in proportion to the reality - inspired cognitive dissonance of the confused Climatology belief system.

The convenient and ancient view among elites that the poor are actually spiritually rich, and the exaggeration of insignificant gestures like recycling and buying new lightbulbs, are both motivated by the cognitive dissonance created by simultaneously believing that not all seven billion humans on earth can «live like we live» and, consciously or unconsciously, knowing that we are unwilling to give up our high standard of living.